Drought‐related tree mortality is now a widespread phenomenon predicted to increase in
magnitude with climate change. However, the patterns of which species and trees are most …

Lianas (woody vines) are abundant and diverse, particularly in tropical ecosystems. Lianas
use trees for structural support to reach the forest canopy, often putting leaves above their …

Tropical forests are often characterized by low soil phosphorus (P) availability, suggesting
that P limits plant performance. However, how seedlings from different functional types …

Soil resource partitioning and dispersal limitation have been shown to shape the tree
community structure of mature tropical forests, but are poorly studied in the context of forest …

Edaphic factors and initial conditions can regulate the speed of forest succession. Edaphic
factors, which include soil chemistry and topography, determine soil resource availability …

By maintaining soil structure and quality, soil microbial communities usually play important
role in many forest ecosystem processes, including ecological succession. Understanding …

Censuses of tropical forest plots reveal large variation in biomass and plant composition.
This paper evaluates whether such variation can emerge solely from realistic variation in a …

The availability of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) controls the flow of carbon (C) among
plants, soils, and the atmosphere, thereby sha** terrestrial ecosystem responses to global …

Species dissimilarity (beta diversity) primarily reflects the spatio–temporal changes in the
species composition of a plant community. The correlations between β diversity and …

Environmental gradients have played a pivotal role in the history and development of plant
ecology and are useful for testing ecological and evolutionary theory. Área de Conservación …