Background The palm family occurs in all tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world.
Palms are of high ecological and economical importance, and display complex spatial …

Because of tropical forests' disproportionate importance for world biodiversity and for the
global carbon cycle, we urgently need to understand any effects on these ecosystems from …

Summary 1 Tests of habitat association among species of tropical trees and shrubs often
assume that individual stems can be treated as independent sample units, even though …

Live aboveground biomass (AGB) is an important source of uncertainty in the carbon
balance from the tropical regions in part due scarcity of reliable estimates of live AGB and its …

Amazonian forests are the largest and most diverse in the tropics, and much of the mystery
surrounding their ecology can be traced to attempts to understand them through tiny local …

Tropical rain forests have the highest tree diversity on earth. Nonrandom spatial distributions
of these species in relation to edaphic factors could be one mechanism responsible for …

Above-ground dry biomass of living trees including palms was estimated in 65 1ha plots
spanning a 1000km2 landscape in central Amazonia. The study area was located on heavily …

It is well documented that the negative effects of habitat fragmentation are strong enough to
promote local as well as regional extinction of canopy and emergent trees in neotropical …

Summary 1 Unravelling which factors affect where tropical trees grow is an important goal
for ecologists and conservationists. At the landscape scale, debate is mostly focused on the …

1 Do local edaphic factors over short environmental gradients affect the distribution and
abundance of tree species in tropical rain forests? We addressed this question by examining …