Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin,, but is
increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire,. Here we quantify these impacts over the …

A key feature of life's diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare.
Nonetheless, at global scales, we do not know what fraction of biodiversity consists of rare …

With forest fragmentation continuing in many parts of the tropics, it is likely that fragmented
forests will become the rule for most remaining global tropical forests in the next decades. In …

A vast literature indicates that environment plays a paramount role in determining floristic
composition in tropical forests. However, it remains unclear which are the most important …

Tropical montane forests (TMFs) play an important role as a carbon reservoir at a global
scale. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive understanding on the variation in carbon …

Background Regarding the most important ecological challenges, scientists are increasingly
debating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function. Despite this, several …

Biomass and carbon stock assessments in data-deficient plantations and identifying the
factors influencing tree growth, distribution, and carbon stocks are extremely important for …

Many studies have tried to assess the role of both deterministic and stochastic processes in
community assembly, yet a lack of consensus exists on which processes are more prevalent …

Questions Lianas contribute substantially to the diversity and function of ecosystems. What is
the relative importance of environmental filtering and spatial processes on structuring liana …

Dominance of neotropical tree communities by a few species is widely documented, but
dominant trees show a variety of distributional patterns still poorly understood. Here, we …