Nataly Ascarrunz

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a structural equation model to test the hypothesis that species richness, forest structural attributes and environmental drivers have independent, positive effects on aboveground biomass (AGB) and ecosystem functioning.

TL;DR: This work assesses how tree species richness and composition recover during secondary succession across gradients in environmental conditions and anthropogenic disturbance in an unprecedented multisite analysis for the Neotropics.

TL;DR: CWM Hmax is a strong driver of ecosystem biomass and carbon storage and CWM SLA, and other CWM leaf traits are especially important for biomass increments and carbon sequestration, and strong support for the biomass ratio hypothesis is found.

TL;DR: Ecosystem services science has developed at a fast rate in Latin America, a region characterized by a high biological and cultural diversity, strong emphasis in foreign investment, and high socioeconomic conditions as discussed by the authors.

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.