Tropical forests are the global cornerstone of biological diversity, and store 55% of the forest
carbon stock globally, yet sustained provisioning of these forest ecosystem services may be …

Intact forests provide diverse and irreplaceable ecosystem services that are critical to human
well-being, such as carbon storage to mitigate climate change. However, the ecosystem …

We examined geographic variation in mean individual seed mass (MISM) among 38
populations within and across nine Pedicularis species in the eastern Tibetan Plateau …

Unprecedented rates of logging and hunting threaten to transform the remaining primary
tropical forest into a degraded mosaic, emptied of wildlife. Defaunation is expected to …

Megafauna (terrestrial vertebrate herbivores> 5 kg) can have disproportionate direct and
indirect effects on forest structure, function, and biogeochemical cycles. We reviewed the …

Sexual system is a key determinant of genetic variation and reproductive success, affecting
evolution within populations and within clades. Much research in plants has focused on …

Aim The phylogenetic constraint hypothesis of flowering phenology states that closely
related species flower at similar times of the year. We test this hypothesis for the C hinese …

Gradient analysis is rarely used in studies of fungal communities. Data on macromycetes
from eight sites along an elevation gradient in central Veracruz, Mexico, were used to …

Seed mass and morphology are plant life history traits that influence seed dispersal ability,
seeding establishment success, and population distribution pattern. Southeastern Tibet is a …

Tropical forests store 340 billion tons of carbon, equivalent to more than 40 years' worth of
human fossil fuel emissions (1). Tropical deforestation and degradation are responsible for …