A trait-mediated, neighbourhood approach to quantify climate impacts on successional dynamics of tropical rainforests

Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

(2014) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests

(2014) J. R. Lasky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Drier Future?

(2014) S. Sherwood et al.   SCIENCE

Successional changes in functional composition contrast for dry and wet tropical forest

(2013) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Altered dynamics of forest recovery under a changing climate

(2013) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Competition-interaction landscapes for the joint response of forests to climate change

(2013) James S. Clark et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability

(2013) Camilo Mora et al.   NATURE

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

An imperative need for global change research in tropical forests

(2013) X. Zhou et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Tropical forests and global change: filling knowledge gaps

(2013) Pieter A. Zuidema et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

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

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Persistent effects of a severe drought on Amazonian forest canopy

(2012) S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Observational and model evidence of global emergence of permanent, unprecedented heat in the 20th and 21st centuries

(2011) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Directional changes in the species composition of a tropical forest

(2011) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   ECOLOGY

Environmental changes during secondary succession in a tropical dry forest in Mexico

(2011) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL 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

Comparative hydraulic architecture of tropical tree species representing a range of successional stages and wood density

(2011) Katherine A. McCulloh et al.   OECOLOGIA

Measuring wood specific gravity…Correctly

(2010) G. Bruce Williamson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

(2010) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impacts of experimentally imposed drought on leaf respiration and morphology in an Amazon rain forest

(2010) Daniel B. Metcalfe et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

(2010) Rosie Fisher et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

(2010) Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

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

Composition and Dynamics of Functional Groups of Trees During Tropical Forest Succession in Northeastern Costa Rica

(2009) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Annual wood production in a tropical rain forest in NE Costa Rica linked to climatic variation but not to increasing CO2

(2009) DAVID B. CLARK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

(2009) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant functional traits - linkages among stem anatomy, plant performance and life history

(2009) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

Drought effects on litterfall, wood production and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: results of a throughfall reduction experiment

(2008) P. M Brando et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES