Understanding the relationship between stand-level tree diversity and productivity has the
potential to inform the science and management of forests. History shows that plant diversity …

Evidence shows that there is a close link between the intensification of shifting cultivation
(SC) and the Amazon forest resilience. However, SC, to this day, is a widely implemented …

There is an increasing urgency to implement large-scale ecosystem restoration to mitigate
the biodiversity and climate crises. These efforts must be scaled up to counteract the …

Two competing ecological hypotheses, ie, the niche complementarity (NCH) and the mass
ratio (MRH) hypotheses, have been proposed to explain how stand structural complexity …

Recent studies have leveraged large datasets from plot-inventory networks to report a
phenomenon of hyperdominance in Amazonian tree communities, concluding that few …

Regenerating forests after agricultural land abandonment are increasingly common in
human-modified tropical landscapes. These secondary forests preserve biodiversity and …

Local communities and individual species jointly contribute to the overall beta diversity in
metacommunities. However, it is mostly unknown whether the local contribution (LCBD) and …

Native forests are considered to be the main centers of terrestrial diversity in the world and
they provide important ecosystem services for humanity. Unsustainable logging is currently …

Along with habitat transformation, climate change has profound impacts on biodiversity and
may alter ecosystem services on which human welfare depends. Many studies of the carbon …

Maintaining newly re-established forests is an important policy and challenge for ecosystem
restoration and climate-change mitigation. However, a global assessment of canopy …