I gave a talk at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting. The talk contains preliminary results of a project which explores spatial variation in biomass stocks across tropical forests. The study looks at the roles of regional environment (climate, elevation), local environment (soils, topography), and tree community composition, and in particular how the relative importance of different functional traits (potential growth rate, potential survival rate, maximum tree size, wood density) for biomass stocks varies across forests.
Here is a link to the slides with the script .