To robustly predict the effects of disturbance and ecosystem changes on species, it is
necessary to produce structurally realistic models with high predictive power and flexibility …

Vegetation is subject to multiple pressures in the 21st century, including changes in climate,
atmospheric composition and human land-use. Changes in vegetation type, structure, and …

The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality.
However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a …

We observed strong positive relationships between soil properties and forest dynamics of
growth and mortality across twelve primary lowland tropical forests in a phosphorus-poor …

Background Forest above-ground biomass (AGB) accumulation is widely considered an
important tool for mitigating climate change. However, the general pattern of forest AGB …

Understanding how water use and drought stress in woody plants change in relation to
compositional, structural and environmental variability of mixed forests is key to understand …

Community trait assembly in highly diverse tropical rainforests is still poorly understood.
Based on more than a decade of field measurements in a biodiversity hotspot of southern …

The mass of carbon contained in trees is governed by the volume and density of their wood.
This represents a challenge to most remote sensing technologies, which typically detect …

Plant ecophysiological trade-offs between different strategies for tolerating stresses are
widely theorized to shape forest functional diversity and vulnerability to climate change …

Spatial redistribution of nutrients by atmospheric transport and deposition could theoretically
act as a continental‐scale mechanism which counteracts declines in soil fertility caused by …