Tropical forests are globally important, but it is not clear whether biodiversity enhances
carbon storage and sequestration in them. We tested this relationship focusing on …

1. Forests account for a substantial part of the terrestrial biomass storage and productivity.
To better understand forest productivity, we need to disentangle the processes underlying …

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 …

Subtropical forests are globally important in providing ecological goods and services, but it
is not clear whether functional diversity and composition can predict aboveground biomass …

Aim Tropical forests account for a quarter of the global carbon storage and a third of the
terrestrial productivity. Few studies have teased apart the relative importance of …

Functional diversity (FD)'those components of biodiversity that influence how an ecosystem
operates or functions' is a promising tool to assess the effect of biodiversity loss on …

The distribution of tropical forest biomass across the landscape is poorly understood,
particularly in increasingly common secondary tropical forests. We studied the landscape …

Impacts of climate change require that society urgently develops ways to reduce amounts of
carbon in the atmosphere. Tropical forests present an important opportunity, as they take up …

Anthropogenic activities have accelerated the rate of global loss of biodiversity, making it
more important than ever to understand the structure of biodiversity hotspots. One current …

Abstract Theory predicts shifts in the magnitude and direction of biodiversity effects on
ecosystem function (BEF) over succession, but this theory remains largely untested. We …