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 …

A key part of tropical forest spatial complexity is the vertical stratification of biodiversity, with
widely differing communities found in higher rainforest strata compared to terrestrial levels …

Abstract Key Message Tree size and exposure is a key driver of stemflow; canopy
heterogeneity leads to spatial randomness of stemflow; stemflow impacts soil moisture in …

Studies on the composition, richness and diversity of plant species in tropical communities
are essential for understanding relevant ecological processes and for developing …

The specific leaf area (SLA) has been related to environmental disturbances, showing a
positive correlation between the disturbances intensities and SLA in a plant community …

Planting seedlings remains the most popular method of forest restoration, but passive
restoration may become a new promise to reduce costs, despite concerns about its efficacy …

Levantamentos fitossociológicos constituem uma ferramenta de suporte à tomada de
decisão em projetos de restauração florestal, contribuindo com a manutenção da …

Stratification in lowland rainforests of Meghalaya, India, which represent the westernmost
limit of the rainforests north of the Tropic of Cancer, was studied in horizontal and vertical …

O presente estudo objetivou avaliar a dinâmica de um fragmento de fl oresta estacional
semidecidual em Uberlândia, região sudeste do Brasil. Para isso foram utilizados dados de …

The Cerrado vegetation types has the same macroclimate, but differs in the microclimatic
and edaphic proprieties, which can result in contrasting phenologies among it. The …