Giant trees in the Amazon serve as critical carbon sinks and underpin diverse forest ecosystems. Yet, these emergent giants are increasingly vulnerable to climatic change, jeopardizing their distribution and ecological niches. Here, we integrate …
In an era when tropical forest regeneration, seedling ecology, and restoration science have become central to biodiversity conservation, Guide to Amazonian Fruits, Seeds & Seedlings offers a long-needed reference for researchers and practitioners …
_Pouteria decorticans_ is an Amazonian canopy tree whose distribution, ecological amplitude, and environmental drivers remain poorly known due to sparse and uneven botanical sampling across the basin. Here, we compile and validate all available …
Species identification in Amazonian forest inventories is challenging due to a shortage of taxonomists, high biodiversity, and morphological similarities leading to taxonomic errors. Full-range spectroscopy (350–2500 nm) is a promising tool for …
Spectral reflectance measured from herbarium specimens represents a potentially vast source of information relevant to plant taxon identification and functional traits, which has inspired many laboratories world-wide to initiate next-generation …
*Copaifera ferrazii* Carmo is described and illustrated as a new tree species from the southeast of Amazonas state, in the Brazilian Amazon. In foliage characters, the new species most resembles three congeners: *C. oblongifolia* (Amazon and Central …
A new tree species of *Ecclinusa* (Sapotaceae, Chrysophylloideae) from Central Amazonia is described and illustrated. It occurs in non-flooded upland forests (terra-firme) in the municipalities of Manaus, Presidente Figueiredo, and Rio Preto da Eva …
Plants cope with the environment by displaying large phenotypic variation. Two spectra of global plant form and function have been identified: a size spectrum from small to tall species with increasing stem tissue density, leaf size, and seed mass; a …
*Ecclinusa guianensis* (Sapotaceae, Chrysophylloideae) is a morpho-ecologically variable species and the second most widespread species of *Ecclinusa* in the Amazon basin. In Central Amazonia, two distinct leaf morphotypes can be field-recognized …
_Pentaclethra macroloba_ is a hyperdominant species with multiple uses in the Amazon. This species tolerates varying flood amplitudes, however the effect of flood topographic gradient on its ecophysiology remains unclear. We want to know if …