Approximately 25 years ago, ecologists became increasingly interested in the question of
whether ongoing biodiversity loss matters for the functioning of ecosystems. As such, a new …

Tree mortality rates appear to be increasing in moist tropical forests (MTF s) with significant
carbon cycle consequences. Here, we review the state of knowledge regarding MTF tree …

The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tip** point, inducing
large-scale collapse, has raised global concern,–. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests …

More than 500 controlled experiments have collectively suggested that biodiversity loss
reduces ecosystem productivity and stability,,. Yet the importance of biodiversity in …

Land-use change occurs nowhere more rapidly than in the tropics, where the imbalance
between deforestation and forest regrowth has large consequences for the global carbon …

This article presents, for the first time, an overview of all known tree species by scientific
name and country level distribution, and describes an online database—GlobalTreeSearch …

Given the substantial contributions of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services to society,
forest sciences have a large potential to contribute to the integrity and sustainability of our …

Restoring forest cover is a key action for mitigating climate change. Although monoculture
plantations dominate existing commitments to restore forest cover, we lack a synthetic view …

Non‐native tree (NNT) species have been transported worldwide to create or enhance
services that are fundamental for human well‐being, such as timber provision, erosion …

Forest ecosystems are an integral component of the global carbon cycle as they take up and
release large amounts of C over short time periods (C flux) or accumulate it over longer time …