In spite of their small global area and restricted distributions, tropical montane forests (TMFs)
are biodiversity hotspots and important ecosystem services providers, but are also highly …

The framework of the plant economics spectrum advanced our understanding of plant
ecology and proved as a unifying concept across plant taxonomy, growth forms and biomes …

Screening species-rich communities for the variation in functional traits along environmental
gradients may help understanding the abiotic drivers of plant performance in a mechanistic …

Community trait assembly in highly diverse tropical rainforests is still poorly understood.
Based on more than a decade of field measurements in a biodiversity hotspot of southern …

Biodiversity and ecosystem functions are highly threatened by global change. It has been
proposed that geodiversity can be used as an easy-to-measure surrogate of biodiversity to …

Current approaches to project spatial biodiversity responses to climate change mainly focus
on the direct effects of climate on species while regarding land use and land cover as …

In tropical forests, herbivorous arthropods remove between 7% up to 48% of leaf area, which
has forced plants to evolve defense strategies. These strategies influence the palatability of …

Climate extremes are on the rise. Impacts of extreme climate and weather events on
ecosystem services and ultimately human well‐being can be partially attenuated by the …

Along with habitat transformation, climate change has profound impacts on biodiversity and
may alter ecosystem services on which human welfare depends. Many studies of the carbon …

Many theories have been proposed to explain the high diversity of plants in the tropics.
However, we lack an understanding of the processes that drive plant diversity and …