Sustainable forestry requires accurate ecological information such as species composition,
growth rates and recruitment dynamics. Tree growth rates are usually obtained through long …

Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) currently occupy only 10% of the original area of their
natural distribution. In the Marañón river valley, north western of Peru, occurs one of the …

The Sapindales are a large order comprised of trees, shrubs, lianas and rarely herbs. This
lineage is mostly pantropical with important temperate lineages, inclusing some of the most …

Long-term analysis of tree growth using annual tree rings is increasingly in demand for
tropical tree species. The basis of these studies has traditionally been the anatomical …

During the last two decades the tropical Amazon forests have been impacted by frequent
and severe droughts. However, little is known about the impacts of these extreme events on …

Questions What are the trade‐offs and/or associated syndromes within and between fire‐
associated traits? Does bud protection relate to bark properties and tree resprouting ability …

Brazil is the world's largest producer of charcoal and a great part of this material still comes
from native forests–especially from the cerrado biome, which is highly impacted by …

Tropical dry forests (TDF) are highly important tropical forest ecosystems. Yet, these forests
are highly threatened, usually neglected and only poorly studied. Understanding the long …

We present the microscopic analysis of growth-ring boundary anatomy of 27 tree species
from a moist tropical forest in Bangladesh and evaluate their dendrochronological potential …

A comparative study of the secondary xylem (wood) anatomy of 11 species (38 specimens)
occurring in cerrado ss and the adjacent gallery forest (both cerrado sl habitat) was made …