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  • This study examines long-term changes in species richness across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species, while Northern Andean forests are accumulating species, acting as a refuge for climate-displaced species.

    • B. Fadrique
    • F. Costa
    • O. L. Phillips
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    P: 1-14

  • Tree mortality has been shown to be the dominant control on carbon storage in Amazon forests, but little is known of how and why Amazon forest trees die. Here the authors analyse a large Amazon-wide dataset, finding that fast-growing species face greater mortality risk, but that slower-growing individuals within a species are more likely to die, regardless of size.

    • Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert
    • Oliver L. Phillips
    • David Galbraith
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-11

  • Wood density is a key control on tree biomass, and understanding its spatial variation improves estimates of forest carbon stock. Sullivan et al. measure >900 forest plots to quantify wood density and produce high resolution maps of its variation across South American tropical forests.

    • Martin J. P. Sullivan
    • Oliver L. Phillips
    • Joeri A. Zwerts
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-12

  • The authors analyse tree responses to an extreme heat and drought event across South America to understand long-term climate resistance. While no more sensitive to this than previous lesser events, forests in drier climates showed the greatest impacts and thus vulnerability to climate extremes.

    • Amy C. Bennett
    • Thaiane Rodrigues de Sousa
    • Oliver L. Phillips
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 13, P: 967-974

  • Inventory data from 90 lowland Amazonian forest plots and a phylogeny of 526 angiosperm genera were used to show that taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity are both predictive of wood productivity but not of biomass variation.

    • Fernanda Coelho de Souza
    • Kyle G. Dexter
    • Timothy R. Baker
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 3, P: 1754-1761

  • Most Amazon tree species are rare but a small proportion are common across the region. The authors show that different species are hyperdominant in different size classes and that hyperdominance is more phylogenetically restricted for larger canopy trees than for smaller understory ones.

    • Frederick C. Draper
    • Flavia R. C. Costa
    • Christopher Baraloto
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 5, P: 757-767

  • The Amazon rainforest is dominated by relatively few tree species, yet the degree to which this hyperdominance influences carbon cycling remains unknown. Here, the authors analyse 530 forest plots and show that ∼1% of species are responsible for 50% of the aboveground carbon storage and productivity.

    • Sophie Fauset
    • Michelle O. Johnson
    • Oliver L. Phillips
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 6, P: 1-9

  • Using 13 functional traits we characterize the Amazonian trees and the communities they form. Amazonian tree communities are distributed along a fast-slow-spectrum. This results in clear differences in traits among these forests, as well as their biomass and biomass productivity.

    • Hans ter Steege
    • Lourens Poorter
    • Georgia Pickavance
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Biology
    Volume: 8, P: 1-17

  • Tree species turnover across Amazonian forests unveils sharp floristic transitional zones, that are linked with changes in soil fertility and climate.

    • Bruno Garcia Luize
    • Hanna Tuomisto
    • Hans ter Steege
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Biology
    Volume: 7, P: 1-15