Half of the aboveground biomass in forests is stored in a disproportionately small number of very tall trees. These giants are predicted to be more vulnerable to drought-induced damage because height ...

Welcome to the July 2026 edition of the ForestPlots.net Newsletter

Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.

A powerful El Niño is building at a dangerous moment for global food security. It is arriving as the world is already facing record heat driven by climate change, and as shipping disruptions in the St...

New research reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical forests of the Andes and Amazon, driven by global change.

By ALIANZA JAMBATO

Optimal regeneration success in Amazonian forests is mapped by simple ecological indicators, providing reference values for measuring restoration success across successional stages based on a large co...

Wande Li, Ingo Grass, Chen Zhu, Thomas Hiller, Yao Shen, Ping Ding, Xingfeng Si This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Have you ever wond…

The authors theoretically delineate the maximal increases in tree growth that can be expected from increases in plant intrinsic water-use efficiency, which increases with rising CO2. They highlight en...

En los bosques montanos húmedos de la Reserva de Biósfera [...]

A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...