Background Tropical tree species can maintain high growth rates on low-phosphorus (P) soils. However, the physiological basis of the high growth rates of tropical tree species …
Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …
Based on the framework of attribute diversity (a generalization of Hill numbers of order q), we develop a class of functional diversity measures sensitive not only to species …
Understanding the role of biodiversity (B) in maintaining ecosystem function (EF) is a foundational scientific goal with applications for resource management and conservation …
Tropical cyclones (TC s) are large‐scale disturbances that regularly impact tropical forests. Although long‐term impacts of TC s on forest structure have been proposed, a global test of …
An important goal in plant community ecology is to understand how species traits determine demographic performance. Several functional traits have been shown to correlate with …
There is a growing need to understand, and ultimately manage, carbon storage by forest ecosystems. Broad-leaved evergreen forests of Taiwan provide an outstanding opportunity …
Background and aims Plant species richness increases with declining soil phosphorus (P) availability, especially for Proteaceae in old infertile landscapes. This difference in richness …
As cyclonic wind storms (hurricanes and typhoons) increase in frequency and intensity with climate change, it is important to understand their effects on the populations and …