• Co-limitation toward lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients 

      liang, Jingjing; Gamarra, Javier G.P.; Picard, Nicolas; Zhou, Mo; Pijanowski, Bryan; Jacobs, Douglass F.; Reich, Peter B. ; Crowther, Thomas W.; Nabuurs , Gert-Jan; de-Miguel, Sergio; Peri, Pablo Luis; Hui, Cang (Springer Nature, 2022-08-08)
      The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most recognized global patterns of species richness exhibited across a wide range of taxa. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed in the past two centuries to explain ...
    • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests 

      Liang, Jingjing; Crowther, Thomas W.; Picard, Nicolas; Wiser, Susan; Zhou, Mo; Alberti, Giorgio; Schulze, Ernst-Detlef; McGuire, A. David; Bozzato, Fabio; Pretzsch, Hans; Peri, Pablo Luis; Reich, Peter B. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2016-10-14)
      The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis and its impacts on ecosystem functioning. Understanding BPR is critical for the accurate valuation and ...
    • Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires 

      Cardil, Adrián; de Miguel, Sergio; Silva, Carlos A.; Reich, Peter B.; Calkin, David; Brancalion, Pedro H. S.; Vibrans, Alexander C.; Gamarra, Javier G. P.; Zhou, M.; Pijanowski, Bryan C.; Hui, Cang; Crowther, Thomas W.; Hérault, Bruno; Piotto, Daniel; Salas-Eljatib, Christian; North Broadbent, Eben; Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M.; Picard, Nicolas; Aragão, Luiz E.O. C.; Bastin, Jean-Francois; Routh, Devin; van den Hoogen, Johan; Peri, Pablo Luis; Liang, Jingjing (IOP Publishing, 2020-12-11)
      Tropical forests are of global importance even though they only cover around 10% of the Earth's land surface. They store large amounts of carbon and host between one-half and two-thirds of the world's species (Lewis 2006). ...