In a review published over two decades ago I asserted that, along soil fertility gradients,
plant traits change in ways that reinforce patterns of soil fertility and net primary productivity …

Terrestrial ecosystem and carbon cycle feedbacks will significantly impact future climate, but
their responses are highly uncertain. Models and tip** point analyses suggest the tropics …

Partial least squares regression (PLSR) modelling is a statistical technique for correlating
datasets, and involves the fitting of a linear regression between two matrices. One …

Leaves interact with light in ways that create a spectral footprint of the terrestrial environment
of our planet. Most of the visible light penetrating the Earth's atmosphere is absorbed by …

Anthropogenic stress and disturbance of forest ecosystems (FES) has been increasing at all
scales from local to global. In rapidly changing environments, in-situ terrestrial FES …

Amazonia is the most biodiverse rainforest on Earth, and the debate over how many tree
species grow there remains contentious. Here we provide a checklist of all tree species …

Leaf reflectance spectra have been increasingly used to assess plant diversity. However, we
do not yet understand how spectra vary across the tree of life or how the evolution of leaf …

The identification of individual tree species is crucial for forest inventory, carbon stocks
assessment as well as for habitat and ecosystem change studies. Previous studies have …

Concurrent measurement of multiple foliar traits to assess the full range of trade‐offs among
and within taxa and across broad environmental gradients is limited. Leaf spectroscopy can …

Map** tropical tree species at landscape scales to provide information for ecologists and
forest managers is a new challenge for the remote sensing community. For this purpose …