Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain underst...
Palm trees have structural characteristics that limit their colonization by lianas (e.g., rapid growth, flexible monopodial stem and deciduous leaves). The objective of our study was to evaluate whether the presence of palm trees can influence the plant infestation by lianas in three forest communities (FG, FS1 and FS2) of the Estação Ecológica da Serra das Araras (EESA), the only transition space between three...