H. S. Suresh

TL;DR: The broad suite of measurements made at CTFS-ForestGEO sites makes it possible to investigate the complex ways in which global change is impacting forest dynamics, and continued monitoring will provide vital contributions to understanding worldwide forest diversity and dynamics in an era of global change.

TL;DR: It is shown that most tree species are extremely rare, meaning that they may be under serious risk of extinction at current deforestation rates, and a methodological framework for estimating species richness in trees is provided that may help refine species richness estimates of tree-dependent taxa.

TL;DR: A global tropical forest classification that is explicitly based on community evolutionary similarity is provided, resulting in identification of five major tropical forest regions and their relationships: (i) Indo-Pacific, (ii) Subtropical, (iii) African, (iv) American, and (v) Dry forests.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used 30 large (8-50 ha) globally distributed permanent forest plots to quantify the spatial variability in aboveground biomass density at spatial scales ranging from 5 to 250m (0.025-6.25 ha), and evaluate the implications of this variability for calibrating remote sensing products using simulated remote sensing footprints.

TL;DR: Analysis of changes in abundance of over 4000 tree species in 12 forests across the world over periods of 6-28 years shows that abundance fluctuations were smaller at species-rich sites, consistent with the idea that stable environmental conditions promote higher diversity.