Tropical ecosystems have the highest levels of biodiversity, cycle more water and absorb
more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Consequently, these ecosystems …

In the tropical rainforest of Amazonia, phosphorus (P) is one of the main nutrients controlling
forest dynamics, but its effects on the future of the forest biomass carbon (C) storage under …

ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

Phenotypic traits and their associated trade-offs have been shown to have globally
consistent effects on individual plant physiological functions,,, but how these effects scale up …

Phosphorus availability is widely assumed to limit primary productivity in tropical forests,, but
support for this paradigm is equivocal. Although biogeochemical theory predicts that …

Because the capability of terrestrial ecosystems to fix carbon is constrained by nutrient
availability, understanding how nutrients limit plant growth is a key contemporary question …

Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient that is often in limited supply, with P availability
constraining biomass production in many terrestrial ecosystems. Despite decades of work …

More than 200 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt reported that tropical plant species
richness decreased with increasing elevation and decreasing temperature. Surprisingly …

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 …

Species distribution is strongly driven by local and global gradients in water availability but
the underlying mechanisms are not clear. Vulnerability to xylem embolism (P50) is a key trait …