Despite substantial conservation efforts, the loss of ecosystems continues globally, along
with related declines in species and nature's contributions to people. An effective ecosystem …

Forest monitoring is the recurrent measurement of forest parameters to identify changes over
time. There is currently a rising demand for monitoring, as well as growing capacities for it …

Large‐scale data compilation is increasing steadily in tropical forest research, but the lack of
standardized methods for data collection limits drawing inference from large datasets and …

We investigated the water use of Caatinga vegetation, the largest seasonally dry forest in
South America. We identified and analysed the environmental phenological drivers in …

Societal Impact Statement Globally, the conservation value of big trees is linked to
biodiversity and carbon sequestration. We studied trees, greater than 80 cm in diameter, in a …

Climatic changes with unpredictable weather conditions have negative effects on many
primates. With several lemur species reaching their ecological limits in the dry and …

Tropical dry forests (TDFs) represent 42% of all tropical forests; they are extensive, but little
is known of their structure and function. The fine litterfall represents the main route of …

Madagascar's unique dry forests, particularly gallery and spiny forests, face severe threats
and are significantly understudied, leaving only a fraction of the original extent intact. Thus …

The Amazon forest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which houses about 10% of
the Earth's biodiversity and 16% of the world's total river discharge into the oceans …

Abstract The Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests and Woodlands biome (SDTFW) has its
largest nucleus in the Caatinga domain. We characterized the flora and physiognomy of the …