Climatic gradients such as latitude and elevation are considered primary drivers of global
biogeography. Yet, alongside these macro‐gradients, the vertical space and structure …

ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

Recent evidence showed that bacteria and fungi appear to have different latitudinal diversity
gradients at the global scale. However, the ecological drivers explaining these decoupled …

Understanding the effects of diversity on ecosystem stability in the context of global change
has become an important goal of recent ecological research. However, the effects of …

Aim Understanding the biodiversity–stability relationship has become a central issue in
ecology and conservation biology. Although the stabilizing effects of tree species diversity …

Aim Understanding the processes underlying the distribution of species through space and
time is fundamental in several research fields spanning from ecology to spatial …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) associations are critical for host-tree
performance. However, how mycorrhizal associations correlate with the latitudinal tree beta …

Environmental filtration and spatial processes are associated with variation in ecological
communities and biodiversity; however, their relative importance to species beta diversity at …

Greater variation in stand structure (ie, individual tree size variation and stand density) is
thought to promote aboveground biomass (AGB) better than species richness due to the …

Whether current hypotheses for geographic patterns of species richness (SR) have a strong
explanatory power for the Tibetan Plateau (TP) with extreme climatic conditions remains …