Forests are the dominant terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. We review the environmental
factors controlling their structure and global distribution and evaluate their current and future …

Understanding tropical forest dynamics and planning for their sustainable management
require efficient, yet accurate, predictions of the joint dynamics of hundreds of tree species …

Tree size shapes forest carbon dynamics and determines how trees interact with their
environment, including a changing climate. Here, we conduct the first global analysis of …

Forest ecosystem models based on heuristic water stress functions poorly predict tropical
forest response to drought partly because they do not capture the diversity of hydraulic traits …

The measurement of forest structure has evolved steadily due to advances in technology,
methodology, and theory. Such advances have greatly increased our capacity to describe …

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 forests exhibit complex but poorly understood patterns of leaf phenology.
Understanding species-and individual-level phenological patterns in tropical forests …

Canopy disturbance explains liana abundance and distribution within tropical forests and
thus may also explain the widespread pattern of increasing liana abundance; however, this …

One of the major challenges in ecology is to understand how ecosystems respond to
changes in environmental conditions, and how taxonomic and functional diversity mediate …

Tropical tree size distributions are remarkably consistent despite differences in the
environments that support them. With data analysis and theory, we found a simple and …