Susan Cordell

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: Global patterns in tree species diversity reflect not only stronger CNDD at tropical versus temperate latitudes but also a latitudinal shift in the relationship between CNDd and species abundance.

TL;DR: This study highlights the importance of replicating restoration strategies at several sites to make widespread management recommendations and shows advantages (good seedling survival, cheaper) and disadvantages (more seedling damage, slightly lower growth) to the island planting design.

TL;DR: It is suggested that relatively simple techniques may be used to simultaneously establish populations of vig- orous understory native species and suppress alien grasses at relatively large spatial scales, and that remnant or newly created favorable microsites may be exploited to facilitate the establishment of rarer native overstory species.