Tropical forests are acknowledged for providing important ecosystem services and are
renowned as “the lungs of the planet Earth” due to their role in the exchange of gasses …

Understanding the processes that shape forest functioning, structure, and diversity remains
challenging, although data on forest systems are being collected at a rapid pace and across …

Land-use change occurs nowhere more rapidly than in the tropics, where the imbalance
between deforestation and forest regrowth has large consequences for the global carbon …

While various relationships between productivity and biodiversity are found in forests, the
processes underlying these relationships remain unclear and theory struggles to coherently …

Forests worldwide are threatened by various environmental and anthropogenic hazards,
especially tropical forests. Knowledge on the impacts of these hazards on forest structure …

Recent studies have underlined the importance of climatic variables in determining tree
height and biomass in tropical forests. Nonetheless, the effects of climate on tropical forest …

Agent-based modelling (ABM) has become an established methodology in many areas of
biology, ranging from the cellular to the ecological population and community levels. In plant …

Global warming is a well-known natural phenomenon that needs to be controlled for
environmental conservation. Based on the ecological interrelationship between forest and …

Carbon storage in forests and its ability to offset global greenhouse gas emissions, as well
as biodiversity and its capacity to support ecosystem functions and services, are often …

Cropland expansion is the primary driver of deforestation worldwide. Since land and rainfall
are two crucial inputs for agricultural production, a lack of rainfall may have severe …