Abstract Purpose of Review Carbon sequestration and storage in forest ecosystems is often
promoted as a solution for reducing CO 2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Yet, our …

Old‐growth tropical forests are being extensively deforested and fragmented worldwide. Yet
forest recovery through succession has led to an expansion of secondary forests in human …

One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth.
However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges and taxonomic difficulties …

Large areas of tropical forests have been lost through deforestation, resulting in fragmented
forest landscapes. However, the dynamics of forest fragmentation are still unknown …

Recent debates on the number of plant species in the vast lowland rain forests of the
Amazon have been based largely on model estimates, neglecting published checklists …

This article presents, for the first time, an overview of all known tree species by scientific
name and country level distribution, and describes an online database—GlobalTreeSearch …

Negative binomial modelling is one of the most commonly used statistical tools for analysing
count data in ecology and biodiversity research. This is not surprising given the prevalence …

The conservation of plants has not generated the sense of urgency—or the funding—that
drives the conservation of animals, although plants are far more important for us. There are …

Tropical forests are global centres of biodiversity and carbon storage. Many tropical
countries aspire to protect forest to fulfil biodiversity and climate mitigation policy targets, but …

Old-growth tropical forests harbor an immense diversity of tree species but are rapidly being
cleared, while secondary forests that regrow on abandoned agricultural lands increase in …