Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate
whether the decline in global atmospheric CO 2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late …

Background A principal function of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is to “perform regular and timely assessments …

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time, 1, 2 and attempts to address it
require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental …

One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth.
However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges and taxonomic difficulties …

Large areas of tropical forests have been lost through deforestation, resulting in fragmented
forest landscapes. However, the dynamics of forest fragmentation are still unknown …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

Tropical forests face increasing climate risk,, yet our ability to predict their response to
climate change is limited by poor understanding of their resistance to water stress. Although …

The tropical forest carbon sink is known to be drought sensitive, but it is unclear which
forests are the most vulnerable to extreme events. Forests with hotter and drier baseline …

The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly
debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian …

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 …