Significant gaps remain in understanding the response of plant reproduction to environmental change. This is partly because measuring reproduction in long‐lived plants requires direct observation over many years and such datasets have rarely been made publicly available. Here we introduce MASTREE+, a data set that collates reproductive time‐series data from across the globe and makes these data freely available to the communit...

Aim Body size frequency distributions are often skewed to the right, with a greater frequency of small‐sized species. Right skewness can appear when speciation is biased towards small species and extinction towards large ones. In contrast, limits imposed by environmental constraints will select taxa to co‐occur in assemblages and can modify size distributions to the left or to the right. We analysed whether the shape of size d...

The influence of functional diversity on ecosystem productivity has practical implications for the carbon sequestration potential of forest ecosystems. Vertical stratification may be one key aspect of functional diversity that influences stand productivity through differential resource use. Although additive basal area of canopy and emergent species has been reported in some forests, it is unclear whether this represents signi...