As climate change drives increased drought in many forested regions, mechanistic
understanding of the factors conferring drought tolerance in trees is increasingly important …

Deadwood represents a significant carbon pool and unique biodiversity reservoir in forests
and savannas but has been largely overlooked until recently. Storage and release of carbon …

The past 40 years in Southeast Asia have seen about 50% of lowland rainforests converted
to oil palm and other plantations, and much of the remaining forest heavily logged. Little is …

Moderate severity disturbances, those that do not result in stand replacement, play an
essential role in ecosystem dynamics. Despite the prevalence of moderate severity …

Extreme climatic events affecting the Amazon region are expected to become more frequent
under ongoing climate change. In this study, we assessed the responses to the 2010 …

Accurate field data are essential to understanding ecological systems and forecasting their
responses to global change. Yet, data collection errors are common, and data analysis often …

Tree mortality drives changes in forest structure and dynamics, community composition, and
carbon and nutrient cycles. Since tropical forests store a large fraction of terrestrial biomass …

Forests are expected to become more vulnerable to drought-induced tree mortality owing to
rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns that amplify drought lethality. There …

Boreal peatlands are frequently underlain by permafrost, which is thawing rapidly. A
common ecological response to thaw is the conversion of raised forested plateaus to …

What causes individual tree death in tropical forests remains a major gap in our
understanding of the biology of tropical trees and leads to significant uncertainty in …