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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: In this article, a two-source random model (2SR) was proposed for estimating evapotranspiration in heterogeneous ecosystems as the residual term of the energy balance using Ts observations and Quickbird images.

TL;DR: Using tree census data from a large-scale plot monitored over a 15-year period since the approximate onset of intense hunting, a comprehensive assessment of the immediate consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community suggests that over-hunting has engendered pervasive changes in tree population spatial structure and dynamics, leading to a consistent decline in local tree diversity over time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a 50-ha plot with mapped trees, allowing an assessment of LiDAR prediction errors at multiple spatial resolutions, and they found that errors scaled approximately as expected, declining by 38% (compared to 40% predicted from theory) from 0.36-to 1-ha resolution.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of meta-analysis and tree physiological models demonstrate that optimal carbon allocation after drought explains observed patterns of delayed tree mortality and provides a predictive recovery framework, indicating that tree resilience to drought-kill may increase in the future, provided that CO2 fertilisation facilitates more rapid xylem regrowth.