In plants, investment in height improves access to light, but incurs costs in construction and
maintenance of the stem. Because the benefits of plant height depend on which other height …

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 …

The sensitivity of tropical forest carbon to climate is a key uncertainty in predicting global
climate change. Although short-term drying and warming are known to affect forests, it is …

Understanding how plants survive drought and cold is increasingly important as plants
worldwide experience dieback with drought in moist places and grow taller with warming in …

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that
represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors …

With their imposing grandeur, the small number of very tall tree species attract a
disproportionate amount of scientific study. We right this bias by focusing here on the shorter …

A trade‐off between growth and mortality rates characterizes tree species in closed canopy
forests. This trade‐off is maintained by inherent differences among species and spatial …

Plant growth is a fundamental ecological process, integrating across scales from physiology
to community dynamics and ecosystem properties. Recent improvements in plant growth …

Aboveground tropical tree biomass and carbon storage estimates commonly ignore tree
height (H). We estimate the effect of incorporating H on tropics-wide forest biomass …

Tropical forests are converted at an alarming rate for agricultural use and pastureland, but
also regrow naturally through secondary succession. For successful forest restoration, it is …