Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

DNA barcodes have provided a new biological tool for organismal biologists to increase
their understanding of the natural world. Over the last decade four plant DNA barcode …

Phenotypic traits and their associated trade-offs have been shown to have globally
consistent effects on individual plant physiological functions,,, but how these effects scale up …

The hypotheses that have been derived to explain the distribution, abundance, dynamics,
and diversity of species are typically tested using data matrices containing the names and …

Although forest succession has traditionally been approached as a deterministic process,
successional trajectories of vegetation change vary widely, even among nearby stands with …

Theory predicts that the processes generating biodiversity after disturbance will change
during succession. Comparisons of phylogenetic and functional (alpha and beta) diversity …

Tropical tree communities present one of the most challenging systems for studying the
processes underlying community assembly. Most community assembly hypotheses consider …

The study of biodiversity has tended to focus primarily on relatively information‐poor
measures of species diversity. Recently, many studies of local diversity (alpha diversity) …

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a large and complex mixture of molecules that fuels
microbial metabolism and regulates biogeochemical cycles. Individual DOM molecules have …

Environmental metabolomes are fundamentally coupled to microbially-linked
biogeochemical processes within ecosystems. However, significant gaps exist in our …