Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

Body size is perhaps the most fundamental property of an organism and is related to many
biological traits, including abundance. The relationship between abundance and body size …

A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

Aim To examine the contribution of large‐diameter trees to biomass, stand structure, and
species richness across forest biomes. Location Global. Time period Early 21st century …

Abstract Characterization of tropical forest trees has been limited to field-based techniques
focused on measurement of diameter of the cylindrical part of the bole, with large uncertainty …

Tree size shapes forest carbon dynamics and determines how trees interact with their
environment, including a changing climate. Here, we conduct the first global analysis of …

We maintained a factorial nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) addition
experiment for 11 years in a humid lowland forest growing on a relatively fertile soil in …

Summary 1 Understanding the factors influencing tree growth is central to forest ecology
because of the significance of growth to forest structure and biomass. One of the simplest …

Live aboveground biomass (AGB) is an important source of uncertainty in the carbon
balance from the tropical regions in part due scarcity of reliable estimates of live AGB and its …

Power‐law frequency distributions characterize a wide array of natural phenomena. In
ecology, biology, and many physical and social sciences, the exponents of these power …