Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to
regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during …

Although approximately three decades ago the ecological role of big-sized trees (also
known as either large, large-diameter, mega, oversized or big trees) has been recognized in …

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that
represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors …

A trade‐off between growth and mortality rates characterizes tree species in closed canopy
forests. This trade‐off is maintained by inherent differences among species and spatial …

Despite a long history of the study of tropical forests, uncertainty about the importance of
different ecological processes in shaping tropical tree species distributions persists. Trait …

A central goal of comparative plant ecology is to understand how functional traits vary
among species and to what extent this variation has adaptive value. Here we evaluate …

1. Forests account for a substantial part of the terrestrial biomass storage and productivity.
To better understand forest productivity, we need to disentangle the processes underlying …

Tree size shapes forest carbon dynamics and determines how trees interact with their
environment, including a changing climate. Here, we conduct the first global analysis of …

The impacts of global change on tropical forests remain poorly understood. We examined
changes in tree growth rates over the past two decades for all species occurring in large (50 …

Hunting affects a considerably greater area of the tropical forest biome than deforestation
and logging combined. Often even large remote protected areas are depleted of a …