The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted
the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our …

Understory vegetation accounts for a large proportion of floral diversity. It provides various
ecosystem functions and services, such as productivity, nutrient cycling, organic matter …

Species distribution is strongly driven by local and global gradients in water availability but
the underlying mechanisms are not clear. Vulnerability to xylem embolism (P50) is a key trait …

We used forest inventories, conducted in seventy-two 1-ha permanent plots to assess the
variation in tree and palm aboveground live biomass (AGLB), and its relation with soil …

Dentro de uma comunidade, espécies simpátricas podem diferenciar sua dieta para
minimizar a competição por alimento. Nas regiões neotropicais, por exemplo, a onça …

Background: Plant composition changes with topography and edaphic gradients that
correlate with soil-water and nutrient availability. Data on soil water for the Amazon Basin …

Aim To evaluate the relative importance of climatic versus soil data when predicting species
distributions for Amazonian plants and to gain understanding of potential range shifts under …

Soil characteristics are important drivers of variation in wet tropical forest structure and
diversity, but few studies have evaluated these relationships in drier forest types. Using tree …

Several studies have demonstrated that topography, as a proxy for resource availability,
plays an important role in shaping tree species distribution patterns in tropical forests. Here …

Questions: What are the relative contributions of environmental factors and geographic
distance to palm community structure at the mesoscale, and how do they depend on the …