In the tropics, research, conservation and public attention focus on rain forests, but this
neglects that half of the global tropics have a seasonally dry climate. These regions are …

Mountain ranges are important centers of biodiversity around the world. This high diversity is
the result of the presence of different soil types and underlying bedrock, a variety of micro …

Aim To determine the principal drivers of variation in the evolutionary diversity of forest tree
communities, with a focus on the temperate forests of South America. Location Forests …

We review literature relevant to assessing the future of tropical forests and supplement the
review with new data from the lowlands of Venezuela. Compared to today, future tropical …

Across the globe, primates are threatened by human activities. This is especially true for
species found in tropical dry forests, which remain largely unprotected. Our ability to predict …

Aims Tropical dry forests are among the most threatened ecosystems on Earth, and
understanding the effects of climate on their species distributions is critical to mitigate global …

The Andes are the world's longest mountain chain, and the tropical Andes are the world's
richest biodiversity hot spot. The origin of the tropical Andean cordillera is relatively recent …

In forestry a lot of time and effort is spent in forest monitoring and conservation, and until
recently there has not been available a successful, economical and easy way to automate …