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  • 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

  • Trees come in all shapes and size, but what drives this incredible variation in tree form remains poorly understood. Using a global dataset, the authors show that a combination of climate, competition, disturbance and evolutionary history shape the crown architecture of the world’s trees and thereby constrain the 3D structure of woody ecosystems.

    • Tommaso Jucker
    • Fabian Jörg Fischer
    • Niklaus E. Zimmermann
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-16

  • 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

  • Plant roots have to orchestrate their growth pattern to access available nutrients. Root architecture is governed by auxin that locally steers growth and development of lateral roots, thereby increasing the uptake capacity. A new mechanism for ammonium acquisition by influencing cellular auxin import has been defined.

    • Hans Motte
    • Tom Beeckman
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 6, P: 1080-1081

  • Accurate estimates of tropical forest carbon stocks are needed for policies to reduce emissions from loss of forests. By looking at a central area in the Congo Basin, Kearsleyet al.find that inconsistencies in height–diameter relationships across Central Africa cause overestimations between regions.

    • Elizabeth Kearsley
    • Thales de Haulleville
    • Hans Verbeeck
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 4, 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

  • Dry-season climate variability is a primary driver of tropical tree growth, according to observations from a pantropical tree-ring network.

    • Pieter A. Zuidema
    • Flurin Babst
    • Zhe-Kun Zhou
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 15, P: 269-276