Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

Controversy remains over what drives patterns in the variation of biodiversity across the
planet. The resolution is obscured by lack of data and mismatches in their spatial grain …

This study was carried out to examine the efficacy of Strict Nature Reserves (SNR) as a
means of biodiversity conservation. This was achieved by assessing the status of the forest …

Tropical cyclones (TC s) are large‐scale disturbances that regularly impact tropical forests.
Although long‐term impacts of TC s on forest structure have been proposed, a global test of …

Variables describing the abiotic environment (eg climate, topography or biogeographic
history) have a long tradition of use as predictors of tree species richness patterns. However …

Stand structure, diversity and regeneration status of woody species were investigated in
open and exclosed dry woodland sites in Island Safari, Shorobe and Xobe, northeastern …

We investigated community structure and tree species diversity of six subtropical mountain
forests in relation to 11 topographical and edaphic factors in Lower Lancang River Basin …

Tropical forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle and climate regulation.
However, our understanding of how Asian tropical forest growth responds to climatic …

Tropical forests store higher above ground biomass (AGB) and AGB carbon (AGBC) than
any other forest ecosystems. In the present study the tree composition, diversity, dominance …

Lianas account for a small fraction of forest biomass, but their contribution to leaf or litter
biomass and thus to food webs can be substantial. Globally liana exhibit fast life‐history …