The structure and diversity of plant communities respond to changes in landscape structure
and vary with spatial scale, stand age and plant size. Therefore, it is important to identify the …

Abstract Questions (1) Do stand density, species diversity and individual tree size variation
jointly increase above‐ground biomass (AGB) along an elevational gradient?(2) How does …

Question Land‐use change and intensification are currently the most pervasive threats to
tropical biodiversity. Yet, their effects on biodiversity change with elevation are unknown …

Depending on the strength of the relationship between biodiversity and aboveground
biomass (AGB), diversity loss could lead to varied declines in carbon storage, compromising …

Evaluating the influences of fine-scale habitat heterogeneity on the composition, diversity,
structure and functioning of forests is critical to understand how tropical forests will respond …

Three central related issues in ecology are to identify spatial variation of ecological
processes, to understand the relative influence of environmental and spatial variables, and …

In order to explore the variation in aboveground biomass among five topographically-
defined habitats in old-growth forest, we measured aboveground biomass within a 20 ha …

Second-growth tropical forests offer important carbon and biodiversity cobenefits, as well as
different leaf functional types of tree species. Leaf deciduousness is an important functional …

Secondary forests recovering after disturbances currently comprise about half of the world′
s tropical forests. A better understanding of the recovery of species composition, stand …

Aims The study of naturally discontinuous forest systems could help further our
understanding of the relative roles of abiotic factors and spatial connectivity in influencing …