Climatic and edaphic controls over tropical forest diversity and vegetation carbon storage

• Main Authors: Hofhansl, Florian, Chacón-Madrigal, Eduardo, Fuchslueger, Lucia, Jenking, Daniel, Morera-Beita, Albert, Plutzar, Christoph, Silla, Fernando, Andersen, Kelly M., Buchs, David M., Dullinger, Stefan, Fiedler, Konrad, Franklin, Oskar, Hietz, Peter, Huber, Werner, Quesada, Carlos A., Rammig, Anja, Schrodt, Franziska, Vincent, Andrea G., Weissenhofer, Anton, Wanek, Wolfgang
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences; Biodiversity; Carbon Cycle
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146168
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Tropical rainforests harbor exceptionally high biodiversity and store large amounts of carbon in vegetation biomass. However, regional variation in plant species richness and vegetation carbon stock can be substantial, and may be related to the heterogeneity of topoedaphic properties. Therefore, abo...