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The American Naturalist, 2017 Convergence occurs in both species traits and community structure, but how convergence at the two scales influences each other remains unclear. To address this question, we focus on tropical forest monodominance, in which a single, often ectomycorrhizal (EM) tree species occasionally dominates forest stands within a landscape otherwise characterized by
Fukami, Tadashi +6 more
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African Savanna-Forest Boundary Dynamics: A 20-Year Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Recent studies show widespread encroachment of forest into savannas with important consequences for the global carbon cycle and land-atmosphere interactions.
Aida Cuni-Sanchez +9 more
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Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 1, January 2026.Seed dispersal by frugivores facilitates plant reproduction, enhancing germination and seedling survival by reducing risks like diseases and predation under parent trees and potentially directing seeds to favorable sites. Elephants, in particular, are known to strongly impact forests via their seed dispersal patterns because of their ability to ...
Megan K. Sullivan +5 more
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Silva Fennica, 2018 In managed European hemiboreal forests, windstorms have a notable ecological and socio-economic impact. In this study, stand properties affecting windstorm damage occurrence at the stand-level were assessed using a Generalized Linear Mixed model.
Donis, Jānis +4 more
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Evaluation of host effects on ectomycorrhizal fungal community compositions in a forested landscape in northern Japan [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Community compositions of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are similar within the same host taxa. However, careful interpretation is required to determine whether the combination of ECM fungi and plants is explained by the host preference for ECM fungi, or by
Shunsuke Matsuoka +5 more
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Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.This study is the first to use telemetry to document the movements of the great blue turaco, a bird that plays an important role in seed dispersal throughout Africa's Congo Basin. We show how 3D vegetation structure influences the movements of four turacos and the resulting spatial patterns of seed dispersal.
Antoine S. A. Tekam +10 more
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Drought generates large, long-term changes in tree and liana regeneration in a monodominant Amazon forest [PDF]
Plant Ecology, 2020 The long-term dynamics of regeneration in tropical forests dominated by single tree species remains largely undocumented, yet is key to understanding the mechanisms by which one species can gain dominance and resist environmental change. We report here on the long-term regeneration dynamics in a monodominant stand of Brosimum rubescens Taub. (Moraceae)
Marimon, BS +10 more
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Ciência Florestal, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/1980509814568Myracrodruon urundeuva Fr.All. forest species is scientifically recognized by the set of ecological and utilitarian features that characterize it as a “noble” species of the Brazilian flora. Although the species has
Felipe Pinho de Oliveira +2 more
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Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2022 The ecotone forests in the northern region of Brazilian Amazonia are important areas representing transition zones between forest and non-forest ecosystems. These areas have soils nutrient-poor that poorly drain.
Oscar O. PRIETO-BENAVIDES +5 more
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Topography and Canopy Structure Interactively Shape Understory Functional Diversity
Journal of Vegetation Science, Volume 37, Issue 1, January/February 2026.In this transect‐based study on broadleaved forests in the Apennines (Italy), we studied how elevation and aspect filter the understory through single‐ and multi‐trait functional diversity. We found that overall functional diversity decreased along south‐facing slopes but showed no trend on north‐facing slopes.
Joshua Erkelenz +7 more
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