Summarising the complexity of a country's economy in a single number is the holy grail for
scholars engaging in data-based economics. In a field where the Gross Domestic Product …

Climate change is expected to cause major changes in forest ecosystems during the 21 st
century and beyond. To assess forest impacts from climate change, the existing empirical …

In response to the bleak prospects of today's financial markets, a wave of financial and
technological innovations emerges, bringing about potential benefits but also new …

Ecological theory suggests that coexistence of many species within communities requires
negative frequency-dependent feedbacks to prevent exclusion of the least fit species. For …

Identifying structure underlying high-dimensional data is a common challenge across
scientific disciplines. We revisit correspondence analysis (CA), a classical method revealing …

Climate and land-use change profoundly affect plant species distribution (SD) and
composition, and the impact of these processes is expected to increase in the coming years …

Because of the “foehn effect”, deeply incised gorges of major rivers in the Hengduan
Mountains (commonly called dry valleys) have semiarid or arid climate. Harsh environment …

Unravelling the patterns, potential processes and mechanisms underlying biodiversity has
always been a crucial issue in community ecology. It is also a necessary first step for any …

Seed sourcing strategies are the basis for identifying genetic material meeting the
requirements of future climatic conditions and social demands. Specifically, local seed …

Los inventarios forestales representan, históricamente, un esfuerzo significativo de
obtención de información sobre la extensión, el estado y la condición de las superficies …