The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large‐scale hydrological refugia from drought?

FRC Costa, J Schietti, SC Stark, MN Smith - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forest function is of global significance to climate change responses, and critically
determined by water availability patterns. Groundwater is tightly related to soil water through …

CTFS‐Forest GEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, SJ Davies… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

Global importance of large‐diameter trees

JA Lutz, TJ Furniss, DJ Johnson… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To examine the contribution of large‐diameter trees to biomass, stand structure, and
species richness across forest biomes. Location Global. Time period Early 21st century …

Pervasive within-species spatial repulsion among adult tropical trees

M Kalyuzhny, JK Lake, SJ Wright, AM Ostling - Science, 2023 - science.org
For species to coexist, performance must decline as the density of conspecific individuals
increases. Although evidence for such conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) …

Plant ecology of tropical and subtropical karst ecosystems

N Geekiyanage, UM Goodale, K Cao, K Kitajima - Biotropica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Substantial areas of tropical forests, including those within nine tropical biodiversity
hotspots, contain karst landscapes that have developed on soluble carbonate rocks. Here …

Spatial distribution of tree species in evergreen-deciduous broadleaf karst forests in southwest China

H Du, F Hu, F Zeng, K Wang, W Peng, H Zhang… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Understanding the spatial distribution of tree species in subtropical evergreen-deciduous
broadleaf karst forest is fundamental to studying species coexistence and karst species …

Reconstructing the reproductive mode of an Ediacaran macro-organism

EG Mitchell, CG Kenchington, AG Liu, JJ Matthews… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Enigmatic macrofossils of late Ediacaran age (580–541 million years ago) provide the oldest
known record of diverse complex organisms on Earth, lying between the microbially …

Consequences of seed dispersal for plant recruitment in tropical forests: interactions within the seedscape

NG Beckman, HS Rogers - Biotropica, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Seed dispersal sets the stage for the suite of biotic and abiotic interactions that determine
the fate of individual seeds. In this review, we first focus on how dispersal influences the …

Fitting complex ecological point process models with integrated nested Laplace approximation

JB Illian, S Martino, SH Sørbye… - Methods in Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We highlight an emerging statistical method, integrated nested Laplace approximation
(INLA), which is ideally suited for fitting complex models to many of the rich spatial data sets …

Quantifying effects of habitat heterogeneity and other clustering processes on spatial distributions of tree species

G Shen, F He, R Waagepetersen, IF Sun, Z Hao… - Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Spatially explicit consideration of species distribution can significantly add to our
understanding of species coexistence. In this paper, we evaluated the relative importance of …