The biodiverse Amazon rainforest biome is the world’s largest rainforest ecosystem and plays an essential role for global climate, carbon budget, and the hydrological cycle. In the light of future climate change the ...

This study confirms that the unique Purdiaea nutans forest in the upper montane belt of the Reserva Biologíca San Francisco in southern Ecuador is an azonal ridge vegetation type. Our ...

Selective logging and forest conversion into agroforestry systems are widespread at the margins of tropical moist forests in South-east Asia, typically creating gradients of forest disturbance ...