The importance of niche vs. neutral assembly mechanisms in structuring tropical tree
communities remains an important unsettled question in community ecology [Bell G (2005) …

Background The threats facing Ecuador's Yasuní National Park are emblematic of those
confronting the greater western Amazon, one of the world's last high-biodiversity wilderness …

The pteridophytes present a great but poorly explored potential as ecological indicators
(EIs), shown only in some sparse studies. Therefore, to analyze this potential, we reviewed …

Summary 1 Many authors have suggested that topography and soils are the major
determinants of species distributions and community patterns at small or regional scales, but …

1 The floristic variation in Amazonian lowland forests is poorly understood, especially in the
large areas of non-inundated (tierra firme) rain forest. Species composition may be either …

Summary 1 Current discussions about the structure and functioning of tropical plant
communities revolve around whether tropical forests are dominated by sets of widespread …

Soil characteristics are important drivers of variation in wet tropical forest structure and
diversity, but few studies have evaluated these relationships in drier forest types. Using tree …

Aquí reviso lo que sabemos sobre la estructura física de los bosques en la cuenca del
Amazonas. Aunque los bosques de la cuenca del Amazonas se encuentran entre los …

To better understand changes in the distribution and diversity within plant functional types
along an elevational gradient and the potential mechanisms driving such changes, we …

Tree diversity and composition in Amazonia are known to be strongly determined by the
water supplied by precipitation. Nevertheless, within the same climatic regime, water …