Frans Bongers

TL;DR: This work assesses how tree species richness and composition recover during secondary succession across gradients in environmental conditions and anthropogenic disturbance in an unprecedented multisite analysis for the Neotropics.

TL;DR: A slow shift to a more dry‐affiliated Amazonia is underway, with changes in compositional dynamics consistent with climate‐change drivers, but yet to significantly impact whole‐community composition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the factors that give rise to biodiversity and structure tropical plant communities in the Upper Guinean rain forests and present an atlas with ecological profiles of rare plant species and large timber species.

TL;DR: It was found that deciduous species also had traits conferring efficient water transport relative to evergreen species, and a strong, negative correlation between K(l) and species' shade tolerance.

TL;DR: A global database of 108753 trees for which stem diameter, height and crown diameter have all been measured is compiled and it is found that a single equation predicts stem diameter from these two variables across the world's forests.