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  • An analysis of tree survival data from forest sites worldwide shows that in the tropics, rare tree species experience stronger stabilizing density dependence than common species, wheras no correlation of stabilizing density dependence and abundance exists in the temperate zone.

    • Lisa Hülsmann
    • Ryan A. Chisholm
    • Florian Hartig
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 627, P: 564-571

  • Inventory data from more than 1 million trees across African, Amazonian and Southeast Asian tropical forests suggests that, despite their high diversity, just 1,053 species, representing a consistent ~2.2% of tropical tree species in each region, constitute half of Earth’s 800 billion tropical trees.

    • Declan L. M. Cooper
    • Simon L. Lewis
    • Stanford Zent
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 625, P: 728-734

  • Analysing data on the relative abundance of basal area of ectomycorrhizal trees from lowland tropical forests, the authors show that their distribution and abundance are independent of soil quality.

    • José A. Medina-Vega
    • Daniel Zuleta
    • Stuart J. Davies
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 8, P: 400-410

  • Examining drivers of the latitudinal biodiversity gradient in a global database of local tree species richness, the authors show that co-limitation by multiple environmental and anthropogenic factors causes steeper increases in richness with latitude in tropical versus temperate and boreal zones.

    • Jingjing Liang
    • Javier G. P. Gamarra
    • Cang Hui
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 6, P: 1423-1437

  • Biogeochemical analysis of a chronosequence of secondary forest succession in lowland Central Africa suggests that calcium becomes an increasingly scarce and potentially limiting resource with stand age and ecosystem calcium storage shifts from soil to woody biomass.

    • Marijn Bauters
    • Ivan A. Janssens
    • Pascal Boeckx
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 6, P: 1122-1131

  • Between around 5,000 to 2,000 years ago, a drying climate in the vast peatlands of the Congo Basin triggered peat decomposition and carbon release to the atmosphere, implying that this region may be vulnerable to future climate change.

    • Yannick Garcin
    • Enno Schefuß
    • Simon L. Lewis
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 612, P: 277-282

  • Nowhere is biomass burning more abundant than on the African continent, but the biogeochemical impacts on forests are poorly understood. Here the authors show that biomass burning leads to high phosphorus deposition in the Congo basin, which scales with forest age as a result of increasing canopy complexity.

    • Marijn Bauters
    • Travis W. Drake
    • Pascal Boeckx
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-8

  • The aboveground carbon stock of a montane African forest network is comparable to that of a lowland African forest network and two-thirds higher than default values for these montane forests.

    • Aida Cuni-Sanchez
    • Martin J. P. Sullivan
    • Etienne Zibera
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 596, P: 536-542

  • Capacity for carbon capture and storage in forests may not be monolithic but instead a function of complex dynamics of forest strata and age. The smaller trees that make up the understory in African tropical forests store their carbon longer as compared to sub-canopy and canopy trees and they represent a disproportionately large share of the carbon sink, in spite of their small size.

    • Wannes Hubau
    • Tom De Mil
    • Hans Beeckman
    Research
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 5, P: 133-140

  • Analysis of changes in functional groups of species and potential drivers of environmental change for protected areas across the world’s major tropical regions reveals large variation between reserves that have been effective and those experiencing an erosion of biodiversity, and shows that environmental changes immediately outside reserves are nearly as important as those inside in determining their ecological fate.

    • William F. Laurance
    • D. Carolina Useche
    • Franky Zamzani
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 489, P: 290-294

  • This study reports data from a network of long-term monitoring plots across African tropical forests, which finds that above-ground carbon storage in live trees increased by 0.63 Mg C ha−1 yr−1 between 1968 and 2007. The data is extrapolated to unmeasured forest components, and by scaling to the continent, a total increase in carbon storage in African tropical forest trees of 0.34 Pg C yr−1 is estimated. These results provide evidence that increasing carbon storage in old-growth forests is a pan-tropical phenomenon.

    • Simon L. Lewis
    • Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez
    • Hannsjörg Wöll
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 457, P: 1003-1006