ABSTRACT A growing body of evidence highlights the importance of biodiversity for
ecosystem stability and the maintenance of optimal ecosystem functionality. Conservation …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

When tropical systems lose species, they are often assumed to be buffered against declines
in functional diversity by the ability of the species-rich biota to display high functional …

Several forest change detection algorithms are available for tracking and quantifying
deforestation based on dense Landsat and Sentinel time series satellite data. Only few also …

Climate change threatens ecosystems worldwide, yet their potential future resilience
remains largely unquantified. In recent years many studies have shown that biodiversity, and …

Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Despite the potential of diversification strategies to achieve sustainability, diversified
systems such as agroforestry are still not widely implemented by farmers, which indicates …

Although forest succession has traditionally been approached as a deterministic process,
successional trajectories of vegetation change vary widely, even among nearby stands with …

Over half of the world's forests are disturbed, and the rate at which ecosystem processes
recover after disturbance is important for the services these forests can provide. We analyze …

We tested whether and how functional composition changes with succession in dry
deciduous and wet evergreen forests of Mexico. We hypothesized that compositional …