book review: Tackling thorny issues in seasonally dry tropical forests

Carbon Cycling in Teak Plantations in Comparison with Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests in Thailand

Abiotic Factors Influencing Tropical Dry Forests Regeneration

Tropical dry forests represent nearly half the tropical forests in the world and are the ecosystems registering the greatest deterioration from the anthropogenic exploitation of the land. This paper presents a review on the dynamics of tropical dry forests regeneration and the main abiotic factors influencing this regeneration, such as seasonal nature, soil fertility and humidity, and natural a...

The role of climate and environmental variables in structuring bird assemblages in the Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (SDTFs)

Understanding the processes that influence species diversity is still a challenge in ecological studies. However, there are two main theories to discuss this topic, the niche theory and the neutral theory. Our objective was to understand the importance of environmental and spatial processes in structuring bird communities within the hydrological seasons in dry forest areas in northeastern Brazi...

Corrigendum to: The establishment of Central American migratory corridors and the biogeographic origins of seasonally dry tropical forests in Mexico

[This corrects the article on p. 433 in vol. 5, PMID: 25566320.].

The establishment of Central American migratory corridors and the biogeographic origins of seasonally dry tropical forests in Mexico

Biogeography and community ecology can mutually illuminate the formation of a regional species pool or biome. Here, we apply phylogenetic methods to a large and diverse plant clade, Malpighiaceae, to characterize the formation of its species pool in Mexico, and its occupancy of the seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF) biome that occurs there. We find that the ~162 species of Mexican Malpighiac...