funded by the National Key Research and Development Program(No.2017YFD0600904);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31922055);the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(No.KYCX21_0913);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD);funded by the China Scholarship Council(Grant No.202108320285);partially supported by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme—European Commission‘BIOSPACE Monitoring Biodiversity from Space’project(Grant Agreement ID 834709,H2020-EU.1.1)。
The diameter at breast height(DBH) of trees and stands is not only a widely used plant functional trait in ecology and biodiversity but also one of the most fundamental measurements in managing forests. However, syste...
Numerous grants from National Science Foundation (US), the Smithsonian Institution, the Mac Arthur Foundation, and Earthwatch supported census work in the Barro Colorado 50-ha plot;The Center for Forest Science at the Morton Arboretum provided support for the author while writing
Background: Documenting the entire lifetime of long-lived organisms requires splicing together short-term observations. Matrix demography provides a tool to calculate lifetime statistics, but large samples from juveni...
funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research(BMBF)through a grant to CL(project number:01LC1314B).
Background:Organic carbon stored in forest soils(SOC)represents an important element of the global C cycle.It is thought that the C storage capacity of the stable pool can be enhanced by increasing forest productivity...
We contrast a new continuous approach(CA)for estimating plot-level above-ground biomass(AGB)in forest inventories with the current approach of estimating AGB exclusively from the tree-level AGB predicted for each tree...
support of the U.S. National Science Foundation (awards 8206992, 8906869, 9405933, 9909947, 0948585 to S.P. Hubbell);the John D. and Catherine D. McArthur Foundation;the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute;supported by research grant #7738 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to P. Legendre
Background: Ecologists are interested in assessing the spatial and temporal variation in ecological surveys repeated over time. This paper compares the 1985 and 2015 surveys of the Barro Colorado Forest Dynamics plot(...
support of the U.S.National Science Foundation (awards 8206992,8906869,9405933,9909947,0948585 to S.P.Hubbell);the John D.and Catherine D.McArthur Foundation;the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Background: The first three censuses of the 50-ha plot at Barro Colorado Island spanned an unusually harsh dry season during the 1983 El Nitro. By the early 1990s, we had documented increases in tree mortality, tree ...
Background: We explore the factors affecting the optimal plot design (size and type as well as the subsample tree selection strategies within a plot) and their relative importance in defining the optimal plot desig...