Tropical ecosystems have the highest levels of biodiversity, cycle more water and absorb
more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Consequently, these ecosystems …

Extreme climatic events threaten forests and their climate mitigation potential globally.
Understanding the drivers promoting ecosystem stability is therefore considered crucial for …

Climate warming will increase the drought exposure of many forests world‐wide. It is not
well understood how trees adapt their hydraulic architecture to a long‐term decrease in …

Key message For better categorization of species according to foliar habit, a set of leaf and
wood traits must be observed. Abstract Tropical forests are influenced by distinct regional …

Functional relationships between wood density and measures of xylem hydraulic safety and
efficiency are ambiguous, especially in wet tropical forests. In this meta‐analysis, we move …

Species distributions and assemblage composition may be the result of trait selection
through environmental filters. Here, we ask whether filtering of species at the local scale …

Tree diversity and composition in Amazonia are known to be strongly determined by the
water supplied by precipitation. Nevertheless, within the same climatic regime, water …

In angiosperms, many studies have described the inter-specific variability of hydraulic-
related traits and little is known at the intra-specific level. This information is however …

Wood structure differs widely among tree species and species with faster growth, higher
mortality and larger maximum size have been reported to have fewer but larger vessels and …

Tree-ring analysis provides an effective way to detect complex responses of trees to climate
warming and has been extensively used in ecological studies; however, there is often a lack …