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Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests

https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16100

Needham, Jessica F.; Johnson, Daniel J.; Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J.; Bourg, Norman; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Butt, Nathalie; Cao, Min; Cárdenas, Dairon; Chang‐Yang, Chia‐Hao; Chen, Yu‐Yun; et al (May 2022, Global Change Biology)

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Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world

https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17995

Piponiot, Camille; Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J.; Davies, Stuart J.; Allen, David; Bourg, Norman A.; Burslem, David F.; Cárdenas, Dairon; Chang‐Yang, Chia‐Hao; Chuyong, George; Cordell, Susan; et al (June 2022, New Phytologist)

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Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf1969

Carvalho, Mónica R.; Jaramillo, Carlos; de la Parra, Felipe; Caballero-Rodríguez, Dayenari; Herrera, Fabiany; Wing, Scott; Turner, Benjamin L.; D’Apolito, Carlos; Romero-Báez, Millerlandy; Narváez, Paula; et al (April 2021, Science)

The end-Cretaceous event was catastrophic for terrestrial communities worldwide, yet its long-lasting effect on tropical forests remains largely unknown. We quantified plant extinction and ecological change in tropical forests resulting from the end-Cretaceous event using fossil pollen (>50,000 occurrences) and leaves (>6000 specimens) from localities in Colombia. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) rainforests were characterized by an open canopy and diverse plant–insect interactions. Plant diversity declined by 45% at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary and did not recover for ~6 million years. Paleocene forests resembled modern Neotropical rainforests, with a closed canopy and multistratal structure dominated by angiosperms. The end-Cretaceous event triggered a long interval of low plant diversity in the Neotropics and the evolutionary assembly of today’s most diverse terrestrial ecosystem.
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ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108907

Davies, Stuart J.; Abiem, Iveren; Abu Salim, Kamariah; Aguilar, Salomón; Allen, David; Alonso, Alfonso; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina; Andrade, Ana; Arellano, Gabriel; Ashton, Peter S.; et al (January 2021, Biological Conservation)
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