Marielle N. Smith

TL;DR: Results indicate that wide-ranging species are indeed characterized by greater intraspecific variation and that species' phenotypes shift along environmental gradients in the same direction as the community phenotypes, however, across species, the rate of intrapecific trait change is limited and prevents species from adjusting to environmentalGradients as quickly as interspecific changes resulting from community assembly.

TL;DR: Interactions between Leaf age-dependent physiology and shifting leaf age-demographic composition are sufficient to explain the dry season photosynthetic capacity pattern at this site, and should be considered in vegetation models of tropical evergreen forests.

TL;DR: Temporal changes in vertically structured LAI along axes of both canopy height and light environments suggest a critical role of canopy structural heterogeneity in seasonal changes in Amazon ecosystem function.

TL;DR: This investigation investigated the influence of edge distance and fragment size on canopy structure, aboveground woody biomass (AGB), and AGB turnover in the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in central Amazon, Brazil, after 22+ years of fragment isolation by combining canopy variables collected with lidar-derived canopy surface variables.

TL;DR: A forest mesocosm was used to quantify the sensitivity of tropical gross ecosystem productivity (GEP) to future temperature regimes while constraining VPD by controlling humidity, and both approaches showed consistent, negative sensitivity of GEP to VPD but little direct response to temperature.