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Climate-driven, but dynamic and complex? A reconciliation of competing hypotheses for species’ distributions

Abstract Estimates of the percentage of species “committed to extinction” by climate change range from 15% to 37%. The question is whether factors other than climate need to be included in models predicting species’ range change. We created …

Disentangling competitive vs. climatic drivers of tropical forest mortality

Abstract Tropical forest mortality is controlled by both biotic and abiotic processes, but how these processes interact to determine forest structure is not well understood. Using long-term demography data from permanent forest plots at the Paracou …

Fusing tree-ring and forest inventory data to infer influences on tree growth

Abstract Better understanding and prediction of tree growth is important because of the many ecosystem services provided by forests and the uncertainty surrounding how forests will respond to anthropogenic climate change. With the ultimate goal of …