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 …

Stable carbon isotope ratios (δ13 C) of terrestrial plants are employed across a diverse
range of applications in environmental and plant sciences; however, the kind of information …

Land vegetation is currently taking up large amounts of atmospheric CO2, possibly due to
tree growth stimulation. Extant models predict that this growth stimulation will continue to …

Terrestrial carbon stock map** is important for the successful implementation of climate
change mitigation policies. Its accuracy depends on the availability of reliable allometric …

Competition for resources has long been considered a prevalent force in structuring plant
communities and natural selection, yet our understanding of the mechanisms that underlie …

Some disturbances can drive ecological systems to abrupt shifts between alternative stages
(tip** points) when critical transitions occur. Drought‐induced tree death can be …

Soil moisture supply and atmospheric demand for water independently limit—and
profoundly affect—vegetation productivity and water use during periods of hydrologic …

A prominent signal of the Anthropocene is the extinction and population reduction of the
megabiota—the largest animals and plants on the planet. However, we lack a predictive …

Droughts are expected to become more frequent and more intense under climate change.
Plant mortality rates and biomass declines in response to drought depend on stomatal and …

Research on the degree to which carbon (C) availability limits growth in trees, as well as
recent trends in climate change and concurrent increases in drought-related tree mortality …