中国森林生物多样性监测网络(CForBio) 目前已经沿纬度梯度从寒温带到热带布设23
个大型森林动态样地, 监测1,893 种木本植物, 代表我国木本植物种类的近1/6. CForBio …

Background and aims Whilst several studies have shown that edaphic variability influences
species composition in nutrient-poor tropical forests, the determinants of local species …

Background & Aim: Since 2004, the Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network
(CForBio) has established 23 large forest dynamics plots along a latitude gradient ranging …

Identifying the mechanisms that underlie the assembly of plant communities is critical to the
conservation of terrestrial biodiversity. However, it is seldom measured or quantified how …

Intraspecific leaf trait variations are becoming a topic of interest for many ecologists because
individual-based traits are essentially the drivers of variations at the community level. Six …

The most salient feature of forests is the vertical-filling architecture of its constituent species.
However, among the possible determinants of tree community assembly, vertical niche …

Forest functionality is generally considered a byproduct of forest diversity. Perhaps
unsurprisingly, many researchers associate increasing multi-functionality with increasing …

Questions Studying the spatial distribution of tree species is fundamental to understanding
the ecological processes governing forest dynamics. Habitat filtering and dispersal limitation …

Understanding the degree to which deterministic and stochastic processes drive community
assembly is an ongoing focus of research in community ecology. This effort is strongly …

We propose a method for detecting significant interactions in very large multivariate spatial
point patterns. This methodology thus develops high dimensional data understanding in the …