Shirong Liu

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: Because large-diameter trees constitute roughly half of the mature forest biomass worldwide, their dynamics and sensitivities to environmental change represent potentially large controls on global forest carbon cycling.

TL;DR: This work used a null model approach to assess the effects of disturbance regimes on variation in response and effect traits and community phylogenetic structure across different stem sizes (saplings, treelets, and adult trees) and spatial scales (10–50 m).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the species diversity, community composition and basal area of all stems among 18 1-ha tropical lowland and montane rain forest plots with a well-recorded long-term history of shifting cultivation and logging on Hainan Island, south China.

TL;DR: Logged tropical forests only partially recovered the characteristics of pre-harvest, primary forest after a half-century of succession, amplifying the importance of conserving tropical forest integrity and developing harvest and management approaches that facilitate full recovery of logged tropical forests.