Environmental heterogeneity is considered to be one of the main factors associated with
biodiversity given that areas with highly heterogeneous environments can host more …

Assessing the level of diversity in plant communities from field‐based data is difficult for a
number of practical reasons:(1) establishing the number of sampling units to be investigated …

Two prominent limitations of species distribution models (SDM s) are spatial biases in
existing occurrence data and a lack of spatially explicit predictor variables to fully capture …

Spatial and temporal information on plant functional traits are lacking in ecology, which limits
our understanding of how plant communities and ecosystems are changing. This problem is …

Abstract The Neotropical region (tropical America) is the most species rich region on Earth.
Several causes have been proposed to explain this extraordinary biodiversity, which may be …

Robert H. Whittaker defined beta diversity as the variation in species composition among
sites in a geographic area. Beta diversity is a key concept for understanding the functioning …

The importance of niche vs. neutral assembly mechanisms in structuring tropical tree
communities remains an important unsettled question in community ecology [Bell G (2005) …

Background The threats facing Ecuador's Yasuní National Park are emblematic of those
confronting the greater western Amazon, one of the world's last high-biodiversity wilderness …

We investigated the utility of high spectral and spatial resolution imagery for the automated
species-level classification of individual tree crowns (ITCs) in a tropical rain forest (TRF) …

Summary 1 We mapped and identified all trees≥ 10 mm in diameter in 25 ha of lowland wet
forest in Amazonian Ecuador, and found 1104 morphospecies among 152 353 individuals …