Michiel Pillet

TL;DR: The results indicate that (i) climatically more stable regions have harbored rare species and hence a large fraction of Earth’s plant species via reduced extinction risk but that (ii) climate change and human land use are now disproportionately impacting rare species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative influence of competition and climate on tree mortality was analyzed using long-term demography data from permanent forest plots at the Paracou Tropical Forest Research Station in French Guiana, and the authors found that self-thinning is evident at the stand level, and is associated with clumped mortality at smaller scales (<2 m) and regular spacing of living trees at intermediate scales.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the influence of climate and competition on the geographic distribution of Pinus edulis, a pine endemic to the semiarid southwestern U.S.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a texture analysis algorithm applied to the high-resolution Pleiades imager in the Organizing Carbon and Hydrology in Dynamic Ecosystems Canopy (ORCHIDEE-CAN) ecosystem model.