Halting deforestation and promoting restoration are at the core of strategies to confront the biodiversity and climate crises in tropical forests. Avoiding forest disturbances is also critically important but has received far less attention, and there is ...

The New World blackbirds (Icteridae) are a widely distributed, ecologically diverse avian family whose biogeographic history remains poorly understood. Competing hypotheses have proposed Neotropical o...

Welcome to the YSF2026 Registration and Abstract Submission form. This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 13th 2026. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...

Are rare species maintained by stronger NDD? A still-unresolved problem A central focus in ecology is identifying mechanisms that maintain species diversity, particularly the coexistence of rare an...

Climate change impacts in the Amazon, particularly heat and drought extremes, are increasing faster than average climate trends, with especially rapid changes in the central-northern region that has s...

The field of biogeography aims to reconcile geological changes with the distribution of biodiversity in space and through time. To this end, we examine how geology and climate have affected the spatio...

Biodiversity databases have expanded dramatically over the past two decades, turning scattered observations into vast digital repositories of species occurrence records. General-purpose infrastructure...

In northwestern Costa Rica, the forest did not return all at once. First the cattle were removed. Then the fires had to be stopped. Introduced grasses made the old ranchlands burn too easily. Fence li...

Substantial intraspecific variation, together with species turnover, drives coordinated shifts in drought resistance such as increased embolism resistance and wider stomatal safety margins in drier forests.

We are calling for submissions to a Special Collection on the theme of advancing plant-focused solutions for building resilient, green and sustainable cities. Submission deadline for manuscripts: 15…

Abstract. Understanding how reproductive isolation (RI) evolves remains a central goal of speciation research. Quantifying RI is challenging, and researche

The movement of taxa between North and South America across the Panamanian land bridge, known as the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI), established modern-day mammal assemblages in the Americas...

We are calling for submissions to a Special Collection on the theme of advancing plant-focused solutions for building resilient, green and sustainable cities. Submission deadline for manuscripts: 15…

Mammals are crucial for sustaining ecosystem functions and services, yet their diversity is increasingly threatened in China’s arid and semi-arid regions because of environmental fragility and intensi...

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

We are calling for submissions to a Special Collection on the theme of advancing plant-focused solutions for building resilient, green and sustainable cities. Submission deadline for manuscripts: 15…