Background The palm family occurs in all tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world.
Palms are of high ecological and economical importance, and display complex spatial …

Aquí reviso lo que sabemos sobre la estructura física de los bosques en la cuenca del
Amazonas. Aunque los bosques de la cuenca del Amazonas se encuentran entre los …

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 …

To advance our understanding of the processes that govern the assembly of palm
communities and the local coexistence of numerous palm species, we here synthesize …

The rapid inventory study provides information on the tree species diversity and stand
structure in tropical deciduous forests of Northcentral Eastern Ghats, India. Tree diversity …

This paper addresses a topic highlighted in recent arguments by Amazonian scholars: the
extent to which forms of forest management in prehistory influenced the past and present …

This book focuses mostly on açaí (Euterpe oleracea) and aguaje (Mauritia flexuosa), the
latter also known as buriti or miriti in Brazil. Most other major wetland palm tree species …

Palms are most diverse in warm and humid regions near the equator. Though palms remain
relatively well conserved, they are under increasing pressure from deforestation. Here, we …

The evergreen forests of the Ecuadorian Amazon Region are altered by anthropogenic and
natural factors. This provokes the need to look for tools that facilitate decision-making in …

The mechanisms that maintain palm species diversity in tropical rain forests are still
debated. Spatial variation in forest structure produces small-scale environmental …