Understory vegetation accounts for a large proportion of floral diversity. It provides various
ecosystem functions and services, such as productivity, nutrient cycling, organic matter …

Regression dilution is a statistical inference bias that causes underestimation of the strength
of dependency between two variables when the predictors are error‐prone proxies (EPPs) …

Numerous studies have shown reduced performance in plants that are surrounded by
neighbours of the same species,, a phenomenon known as conspecific negative density …

The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality.
However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a …

Our knowledge about the structure and function of Andean forests at regional scales
remains limited. Current initiatives to study forests over continental or global scales still have …

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

Life‐history theory posits that trade‐offs between demographic rates constrain the range of
viable life‐history strategies. For coexisting tropical tree species, the best established …

Tropical tree diversity increases with rainfall,. Direct physiological effects of moisture
availability and indirect effects mediated by biotic interactions are hypothesized to contribute …

A prominent tree species coexistence mechanism suggests host-specific natural enemies
inhibit seedling recruitment at high conspecific density (negative conspecific density …

Half a century ago, Janzen and Connell hypothesized that the high tree species diversity in
tropical forests is maintained by specialized natural enemies. Along with other mechanisms …