Land-based carbon sequestration projects, such as tree planting, are a prominent strategy to
offset carbon emissions. However, we risk reducing natural ecosystems to one metric …

Tropical forests cover large areas of equatorial Africa and play a substantial role in the
global carbon cycle. However, there has been a lack of biometric measurements to …

Intercellular mitochondrial transfer (MT) is a newly discovered form of cell-to-cell signalling
involving the active incorporation of healthy mitochondria into stressed/injured recipient …

Short-term experimental studies provided evidence that plant diversity increases ecosystem
resilience and resistance to drought events, suggesting diversity to serve as a nature-based …

Forests harbor extensive biodiversity and act as a strong global carbon and nitrogen sink.
Although enhancing tree diversity has been shown to mitigate climate change by …

Soil microbial communities are usually regarded as one of the key players in the global
element cycling. Moreover, an important consequence of oil contamination altering the …

The temporal stability of forest productivity is a key ecosystem function and an essential
service to humanity. Plot-scale tree diversity experiments with observations over 10 to 11 y …

Dynamic ecosystems, such as the Amazon forest, are expected to show critical slowing
down behavior, or slower recovery from recurrent small perturbations, as they approach an …

Functional overlap among species (redundancy) is considered important in shaping
competitive and mutualistic interactions that determine how communities respond to …

Tropical forests and particularly the Amazon rainforest have been identified as potential
tipping elements in the Earth system. According to a dynamical systems theory, a decline in …