Summary The Brazilian Atlantic Forest hosts one of the world's most diverse and threatened
tropical forest biota. In many ways, its history of degradation describes the fate experienced …

Tropical forests vary widely in biomass carbon (C) stocks and fluxes even after controlling for
forest age. A mechanistic understanding of this variation is critical to accurately predicting …

The cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao L.) is cultivated typically in agroforestry systems in close
association with a rich list of tree species and other useful plants on the same plot. Cocoa …

Tropical montane forests (TMFs) are recognized for the provision of hydrological services
and the protection of biodiversity, but their role in carbon storage is not well understood. We …

Fragmented tropical forest landscapes preserve much of the remaining biodiversity and
carbon stocks. Climate change is expected to intensify droughts and increase fire hazard …

Understanding and predicting the likely response of ecosystems to climate change are
crucial challenges for ecology and for conservation biology. Nowhere is this challenge …

Emerging international policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and
forest degradation (REDD+) in developing countries, has resulted in numerous studies on …

The protection and sustainable management of forest carbon stocks, particularly in the
tropics, is a key factor in the mitigation of global change effects. However, our knowledge of …

Subtropical forests certainly contribute to terrestrial global carbon storage, but we have
limited understanding about the relative amounts and of the drivers of above-ground …

Cerrado is a biome that occupies about 25% of the Brazilian territory and is characterized by
a gradient of grassland to savanna and forest formations and by high species richness. It …