"The book’s main strength is that it summarizes a truly impressive amount of data about tropical forest structure, diversity, and turnover."

Steven D. Allison | Quarterly Review of Biology

"The 104 contributors to the 38 chapters in this well-edited volume introduce the 16 CTFS plots and summarize the findings from their collectively and individually impressive efforts. . . . Overall, the CTFS researchers have set a hard-to-achieve standard for investigations of the origins and maintenance of tree species diversity in tropical forests."

Francis E. Putz | Ecology

"[The book] will be of benefit to eclectic postgraduates and field researchers looking to develop, refresh and advance their own theories, and in particular to those wishing to compare and contrast their own findings from permanent sample plots with tropical forests elsewhere."

Howard Rogers | Austral Ecology