Forests and Global Change

Forests hold a significant proportion of global biodiversity and terrestrial carbon stocks, and are at the forefront of human-induced global change. The role of drought as a driver of tropical tree species regeneration dynamics and distribution patterns is outlined by Liza Comita, Ohio State University, and Bettina Engelbrecht, working group Functional and Tropical Plant Ecology at the University of Bayreuth, in the forthcoming book "Forests and Global Change" (chapter 10). The book presents the results of a conference of the British Ecological Society in Cambridge in 2012.