Genetic variation and environmental heterogeneity fundamentally shape the interactions between plants of the same species. According to the resource partitioning hypothesis, competition between neighbors intensifies as ...

Tree mortality is a key process in forest dynamics. Despite decades of effort to understand this process, many uncertainties remain. South American broadleaf species are particularly under-represented in global studies on ...

Linking individual-tree and stand-level growth models is required for estimating future forest stand structure, while maintaining the desired accuracy for forest management decision making. There is a scarcity of studies ...

This work aims at modeling the diameter growth for individual trees of Araucaria angustifolia, present in the Mixed Ombrophylous Forest at National Forest of São Francisco de Paula, northeast of Rio Grande do Sul. Therefore, ...

Forests are major components of the global carbon cycle, providing substantial feedback to atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Our ability to understand and predict changes in the forest carbon cycle—particularly ...

Tree growth is one of the main variables needed for forest management planning. The use of simple models containing traditional equations to describe tree growth is common. However, equations that incorporate different ...

Trees’ growth responses to climate may depend on tree age and site conditions. In dioecious species, sex adds an extra level of complexity due to differential reproductive effort between the sexes and potentially sex-related ...