Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

Secondary forests are increasingly important components of human‐modified landscapes in
the tropics. Successional pathways, however, can vary enormously across and within …

Phenotypic traits and their associated trade-offs have been shown to have globally
consistent effects on individual plant physiological functions,,, but how these effects scale up …

Land-use history interacts with natural forces to influence the severity of disturbance events
and the rate and nature of recovery processes in tropical forests. Although we are far from an …

Recognition of the importance of land-use history and its legacies in most ecological
systems has been a major factor driving the recent focus on human activity as a legitimate …

Climate change models predict more frequent and severe droughts in the humid tropics.
How drought will impact tropical forest carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics is poorly …

Hurricanes have visible and invisible effects on forests. The visible effects are dramatic,
noticeable over the short‐term and relatively well documented in the literature. Invisible …

Tropical landscapes are dominated by land‐use systems, but their contribution to the
conservation of biodiversity is largely unknown. Since changes in biodiversity in response to …

Contrary to the general trend in the tropics, forests have recovered in Puerto Rico from less
than 10% of the landscape in the late 1940s to more than 40% in the present. The recent …

The problem of scale dependency is widespread in investigations of ecological
communities. Null model investigations of community assembly exemplify the challenges …