BACKGROUND Forest dynamics arise from the interplay of chronic drivers and transient
disturbances with the demographic processes of recruitment, growth, and mortality. The …

Climate change is expected to drive increased tree mortality through drought, heat stress,
and insect attacks, with manifold impacts on forest ecosystems. Yet, climate‐induced tree …

Numerous current efforts seek to improve the representation of ecosystem ecology and
vegetation demographic processes within Earth System Models ( ESM s). These developments …

… the breeding season is rare in our study area (JW Lichstein, TR Simons, and KE Franzreb, …
use of this vegetation as a nesting substrate (JW Lichstein, TR Simons, and KE Franzreb, …

I explore the use of multiple regression on distance matrices (MRM), an extension of partial
Mantel analysis, in spatial analysis of ecological data. MRM involves a multiple regression of …

The leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes multivariate correlations that constrain leaf
traits of plant species primarily to a single axis of variation if data are normalized by leaf mass. …

The perfect-plasticity approximation (PPA) is an analytically tractable model of forest
dynamics, defined in terms of parameters for individual trees, including allometry, growth, and …

Background Canopy structure, which can be defined as the sum of the sizes, shapes and
relative placements of the tree crowns in a forest stand, is central to all aspects of forest ecology…

Overhunting in tropical forests reduces populations of vertebrate seed dispersers. If reduced
seed dispersal has a negative impact on tree population viability, overhunting could lead to …

Understanding tropical forest dynamics and planning for their sustainable management require
efficient, yet accurate, predictions of the joint dynamics of hundreds of tree species. With …