Stand structure can strongly influence forest growth and other processes, such as the water
balance, carbon partitioning, nutrient cycling and light dynamics. However, individual …

ABSTRACT A common, long‐held belief is that metabolic rate drives the rates of various
biological, ecological and evolutionary processes. Although this metabolic pacemaker view …

Most of the planet's diversity is concentrated in the tropics, which includes many regions
undergoing rapid climate change. Yet, while climate‐induced biodiversity changes are …

Mixed‐species forests generally sequester and store more carbon in above‐ground woody
biomass compared to species‐poor systems. However, the mechanisms driving the positive …

Tree mortality is a key process underlying forest dynamics and community assembly.
Understanding how tree mortality is driven by simultaneous drivers is needed to evaluate …

Climate is widely recognised as an important determinant of the latitudinal diversity gradient.
However, most existing studies make no distinction between direct and indirect effects of …

Plant communities show two general responses to gradients of soil resources: a decrease in
species richness at high levels of resource availability and an associated shift in species …

The course of tree growth, especially the level and persistence until advanced age, indicates
the competitivenes and fitness of trees and determines stand structure and dynamics. The …

Seed plants vary tremendously in size and morphology; however, variation and covariation
in plant traits may be governed, at least in part, by universal biophysical laws and biological …

Forests are an important, yet poorly understood, component of the global carbon cycle. We
develop a general integrative framework for modelling the influences of stand age …