A team co-led by a Purdue University researcher has found that groups of fungi influence global tree species in distinct ways ...

Global patterns of biodiversity are influenced by spatial and environmental variations in the rate at which new species form. We relate variations in speciation rates to six key patterns of ...

On these 20-to-50-hectare plots, every single tree with a diameter not much larger than a pencil has been identified, measured and mapped every five years, often totaling more than 200 000 trees.

While phylogenetic diversity did not vary strongly across any gradient, functional diversity increased monotonically with both local and landscape-level tree cover. Maximum values of functional ...