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  • 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

  • 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

  • A global research network monitoring the Amazon for 30 years reports in this study that tree size increased by 3% each decade.

    • Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert
    • Rebecca Banbury Morgan
    • Oliver L. Phillips
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 11, P: 2016-2025

  • 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

  • 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

  • Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical forest canopies globally.

    • Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez
    • Sami W. Rifai
    • Yadvinder Malhi
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 641, P: 129-136

  • Ground truthed thermal data from a new NASA satellite combined with experimental warming data from three continents in an empirical model suggests that tropical forests are closer to a high temperature threshold than previously thought.

    • Christopher E. Doughty
    • Jenna M. Keany
    • Joshua B. Fisher
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 621, P: 105-111

  • 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

  • Different aspects of biodiversity may not necessarily converge in their response to climate change. Here, the authors investigate 25-year shifts in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of tropical forests along a spatial climate gradient in West Africa, showing that drier forests are less stable than wetter forests.

    • Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez
    • Yadvinder Malhi
    • Imma Oliveras
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-10