This review summarizes current understanding of five key plant traits: seed mass, plant
height, wood density, leaf mass per unit area and leaf size, emphasizing ways in which our …

Remote sensing is revolutionizing the way we study forests, and recent technological
advances mean we are now able–for the first time–to identify and measure the crown …

Forests are a major component of the global carbon cycle, and accurate estimation of forest
carbon stocks and fluxes is important in the context of anthropogenic global change …

Accurate ground‐based estimation of the carbon stored in terrestrial ecosystems is critical to
quantifying the global carbon budget. Allometric models provide cost‐effective methods for …

The origin of trees and forests in the Mid Devonian (393–383 Ma) was a turning point in
Earth history, marking permanent changes to terrestrial ecology, geochemical cycles …

Promoting mixed‐species forests is an important strategy for adaptation and risk reduction in
the face of global change. Concurrently, a main challenge in ecology is to quantify the …

Urban parks and green spaces are among the few places where city dwellers can have
regular contact with nature and engage in outdoor recreation. Social media data provide …

High-value timber species such as monarch birch (Betula maximowicziana Regel), castor
aralia (Kalopanax septemlobus (Thunb.) Koidz), and Japanese oak (Quercus crispula …

Data capturing multiple axes of tree size and shape, such as a tree's stem diameter, height
and crown size, underpin a wide range of ecological research—from develo** and testing …

Height-diameter equations are essential to understand forest dynamics and estimate forest
biomass and carbon stocks. Most existing large scale height-diameter equations in Africa …