Oliver L. Phillips

TL;DR: The findings suggest that Amazonian forests are partitioned into large-area units on the basis of geological formations and their edaphic properties, and the evolution of these units through geological time may provide a general mechanism for biotic diversification in Amazonia.

TL;DR: ForestPlots.net as mentioned in this paper is a secure, online inventory data repository and facilitates data management of long-term tropical forest plots to promote scientific collaborations among independent researchers, where individual trees are tracked over time.

TL;DR: This synthesis of plot networks across climatic and biogeographic gradients shows that forest thermal sensitivity is dominated by high daytime temperatures, and biome-wide variation in tropical forest carbon stocks and dynamics shows long-term resilience to increasing high temperatures.

TL;DR: Large lianas are a much more dynamic component of Amazon forests than are canopy trees, and they play aMuch more significant functional role than their structural contribution suggests.

TL;DR: A personal perspective on the highlights of the Theme Issue 'Tropical forests and global atmospheric change' highlights the key findings on the contemporary rate of climatic change in the tropics, the evidence-gained from field studies-of large-scale and rapidchange in the dynamics and biomass of old-growth forests, and evidence of how climate change and fragmentation can interact to increase the vulnerability of plants and animals to fires.