Ivan Schiavini

TL;DR: In this article, the relative importance of environmental factors and forest attributes for ecosystem functioning, especially for the tropics, was investigated for the Neotropics, where water availability has a strong positive effect on biomass stocks and growth, and a future predicted increase in (atmospheric) drought might reduce carbon storage.

TL;DR: Initial stand biomass was the best predictor of all three processes of biomass dynamics, providing strong support for the vegetation quantity hypothesis, and no support for niche complementarity (in terms of functional diversity or species richness) for forest productivity.

TL;DR: The results demonstrated that morphology has, at least in early stages, a determinant role in the processes of tree seedling establishment and development.

TL;DR: The overlay of topographic and species distribution maps showed that species may be or are dependent, tolerant or intolerant to different levels of soil hydric saturation related to variations of topography.

TL;DR: Floristic patterns of ten seasonal semideciduous forest sites in southeastern Brazil and a central sampling of one hectare for each site revealed that similarities between studied fragments were due mainly to the successional stage of the community.