Tropical and subtropical forests cover only 7 % of the Earth’s land surface. Yet, they host nearly half of global tree density with a high species number (~40,000 species), store up to 25 % of global terrestrial carbon and ...

Climate-vegetation relations in alpine systems play a pivotal role in regulating hydrology and have thus become a research priority in a context of ongoing climate change. In this paper, we investigate how one of the ...

In this note we introduce one of 14 Collaborative Research Networks (CRN) funded by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. It was established in 1999 and involves 15 principal investigators from 13 ...

Dendroecology is the branch of science that studies growth rings. These represent the annual diametric increment of plants and provide valuable information about the dynamics of population development and the relationship ...

Dendroecology is the branch of science that studies growth rings. These represent the annual diametric increment of plants and provide valuable information about the dynamics of population development and the relationship ...

South America extends from 11°N to 62°S. Major boundaries such as the Andes on the western side of the continent and the land mass in the tropics create north-south and west-east variations in climate and ecosystems. ...