Asian tropical forests are amongst the most diverse on the planet, a richness that belies the
fact that they are dominated by a single family of trees, the Dipterocarpaceae. Many other …

Deforestation has a substantial impact on aboveground biodiversity, but the response of
belowground soil fungi remains poorly understood. In a tropical montane rainforest in …

The functional biogeography of tropical forests is expressed in foliar chemicals that are key
physiologically based predictors of plant adaptation to changing environmental conditions …

Tree thinning affects the light environment, which in turn affects the growth and survival of
understory vegetation, thus improving species diversity and nutrient cycling, as well as the …

The present survey was carried out in Oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) woodlands of Arghvan
valley protected area, in Ilam province, western Iran. The main aim of this study was to …

Gap size is critically important to ecological processes that drive forest dynamics within the
gap, yet its threshold has never been explicitly defined. Consequently, gap sizes reported in …

Abstract Although Atlantic Forest is diverse and heavily fragmented, little is known about the
impact of edges created from fragmentation on forest structure and plant diversity. Our …

Canopy closure and soil characteristics are commonly used to explain regeneration
distribution at local and regional scales, although very few studies take both factors into …

Insect herbivory in natural forests is of critical importance in forest regeneration and
dynamics. Some hypotheses that have been proposed to explain variation in leaf …

Forest functionality is generally considered a byproduct of forest diversity. Perhaps
unsurprisingly, many researchers associate increasing multi-functionality with increasing …