Land use history and environmental filtering drive taxonomic and functional diversity in Atlantic Rainforest fragments.

The Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest is a fragmented biodiversity hotspot where anthropogenic and environmental drivers shape species composition, abundance, and dimensions of tree diversity. This study addresses how anthropogenic disturbance and edaphoclimatic and topographic environmental factors influence taxonomic and functional diversity in Atlantic Rainforest. We used forest inventory data from 136 plots across nine fragments with different land-use histories.