Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 397–406 Abstract Tropical forests are experiencing large‐scale
structural changes, the most apparent of which may be the increase in liana (woody vine) …

Notes: A) A dwarf mangrove ecosystem (mangle chaparro), Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve,
Quintana Roo, Mexico. B) A large Sonneratia alba tree, Yela River Mangrove Forest …

Lianas compete intensely with trees, but few studies have examined long‐term effects of
liana infestation on tree growth and mortality. We quantified the effects of lianas in tree …

Tropical forests store vast quantities of carbon, account for one-third of the carbon fixed by
photosynthesis, and are a major sink in the global carbon cycle. Recent evidence suggests …

Lianas are a key component of tropical forests; however, most surveys are too small to
accurately quantify liana community composition, diversity, abundance, and spatial …

During the last three decades, the area dedicated to tree plantations in northeast of
Argentina has increased five-fold at the expense of the native semideciduous Atlantic Forest …

We test the hypotheses proposed by Gentry and Schnitzer that liana density and basal area
in tropical forests vary negatively with mean annual precipitation (MAP) and positively with …

Canopy disturbance explains liana abundance and distribution within tropical forests and
thus may also explain the widespread pattern of increasing liana abundance; however, this …

Soil resource partitioning and dispersal limitation have been shown to shape the tree
community structure of mature tropical forests, but are poorly studied in the context of forest …