Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora

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: It is found that the distributions of tree taxa are indeed nested along precipitation gradients in the western Neotropics, and the results suggest that the ‘dry tolerance’ hypothesis has broad applicability in the world's most species-rich forests.

TL;DR: It is shown that fast demographic traits – short turnover times – are associated with high diversification rates across 51 clades of canopy trees, which reveals the crucial role of intrinsic, ecological variation among clades for understanding the origin of the remarkable diversity of Amazonian trees and forests.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how a global community is responding to the challenges of tropical ecosystem research with diverse teams measuring forests tree-by-tree in thousands of long-term plots.

TL;DR: A pan-Amazonian assessment of how and why trees die is presented, analysing over 120,000 trees representing > 3800 species from 189 long-term RAINFOR forest plots, providing large-scale evidence for the overarching importance of the growth–survival trade-off in driving tropical tree mortality.