Old-growth Neotropical forests are shifting in species and trait composition

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover

(2016) R. Alkama et al.   SCIENCE

Medium-term dynamics of tree species composition in response to silvicultural intervention intensities in a tropical rain forest

(2015) Angela Luciana de Avila et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Explaining Legume Success in Tropical Dry Forests Based on Seed Germination Niches: A New Hypothesis

(2015) German Vargas G. et al.   BIOTROPICA

Amazonian Dark Earth Shapes the Understory Plant Community in a Bolivian Forest

(2015) Estela Quintero-Vallejo et al.   BIOTROPICA

Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates

(2015) Vincent Maire et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Nutrient resorption is associated with leaf vein density and growth performance of dipterocarp tree species

(2015) Jiao-Lin Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest

(2015) Charles R. Clement et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

(2015) Amy C. Bennett et al.   Nature Plants

Does functional trait diversity predict above-ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses

(2014) Bryan Finegan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Spatially robust estimates of biological nitrogen (N) fixation imply substantial human alteration of the tropical N cycle

(2014) B. W. Sullivan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Strong radial variation in wood density follows a uniform pattern in two neotropical rain forests

(2013) Peter Hietz et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Substantial reorganization of China's tropical and subtropical forests: based on the permanent plots

(2013) Guoyi Zhou et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Single-trait functional indices outperform multi-trait indices in linking environmental gradients and ecosystem services in a complex landscape

(2013) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of disturbance intensity on species and functional diversity in a tropical forest

(2013) Geovana Carreño-Rocabado et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Key role of symbiotic dinitrogen fixation in tropical forest secondary succession

(2013) Sarah A. Batterman et al.   NATURE

Carbon pools recover more quickly than plant biodiversity in tropical secondary forests

(2013) P. A. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional Extinction of Birds Drives Rapid Evolutionary Changes in Seed Size

(2013) M. Galetti et al.   SCIENCE

Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil Effects on Forest Structure and Diversity in a Moist and a Dry Tropical Forest

(2011) Marielos Peña-Claros et al.   BIOTROPICA

Directional changes in the species composition of a tropical forest

(2011) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   ECOLOGY

Disentangling stand and environmental correlates of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forests

(2011) CHRISTOPHER BARALOTO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Environmental filtering of dense-wooded species controls above-ground biomass stored in African moist forests

(2011) Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Distribution patterns of tropical woody species in response to climatic and edaphic gradients

(2011) Marisol Toledo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Hydraulics and life history of tropical dry forest tree species: coordination of species’ drought and shade tolerance

(2011) Lars Markesteijn et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Long-Term Change in the Nitrogen Cycle of Tropical Forests

(2011) P. Hietz et al.   SCIENCE

The Nitrogen Paradox in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

(2010) Lars O. Hedin et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Long-term change within a Neotropical forest: assessing differential functional and floristic responses to disturbance and drought

(2010) BRIAN J. ENQUIST et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A method to construct dose–response curves for a wide range of environmental factors and plant traits by means of a meta-analysis of phenotypic data

(2010) Hendrik Poorter et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

(2010) Oliver L. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits

(2010) LARS MARKESTEIJN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Woody legumes: a (re)view from the South

(2010) M. A. Adams et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The Relationships of Wood-, Gas- and Water Fractions of Tree Stems to Performance and Life History Variation in Tropical Trees

(2008) Lourens Poorter   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Landscape-Scale Environmental and Floristic Variation in Costa Rican Old-Growth Rain Forest Remnants

(2008) Steven E. Sesnie et al.   BIOTROPICA

Effects of stem anatomical and structural traits on responses to stem damage: an experimental study in the Bolivian Amazon

(2008) Claudia Romero et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Clustered disturbances lead to bias in large-scale estimates based on forest sample plots

(2008) Jeremy I. Fisher et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Leaf traits show different relationships with shade tolerance in moist versus dry tropical forests

(2008) Lourens Poorter   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf size and leaf display of thirty-eight tropical tree species

(2008) Lourens Poorter et al.   OECOLOGIA

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE

Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

(2008) Jérôme Chave et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY