Influences of wildfire on the forest ecosystem and climate change: A comprehensive study

K Gajendiran, S Kandasamy, M Narayanan - Environmental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildfires have complex impacts on forests, including changes in vegetation, threats to
biodiversity, and emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which exacerbate …

Tropical dry forest dynamics in the context of climate change: syntheses of drivers, gaps, and management perspectives

ZG Siyum - Ecological Processes, 2020 - Springer
This review attempts to synthesize the available literature on tropical dry forests and their
dynamics in the context of climate change and thereby identifies possible gaps and priority …

Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly

AC Bennett, T Rodrigues de Sousa… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The tropical forest carbon sink is known to be drought sensitive, but it is unclear which
forests are the most vulnerable to extreme events. Forests with hotter and drier baseline …

A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species

JS Powers, G Vargas G, TJ Brodribb… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Drought‐related tree mortality is now a widespread phenomenon predicted to increase in
magnitude with climate change. However, the patterns of which species and trees are most …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Sharp decline in future productivity of tropical reforestation above 29 C mean annual temperature

A Nölte, R Yousefpour, M Cifuentes-Jara… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Tropical reforestation is among the most powerful tools for carbon sequestration. Yet, climate
change impacts on productivity are often not accounted for when estimating its mitigation …

Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity

J Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Y Malhi, SL Lewis, S Fauset… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tropical ecosystems adapted to high water availability may be highly impacted by climatic
changes that increase soil and atmospheric moisture deficits. Many tropical regions are …

Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change

J Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, E Berenguer… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tropical forests are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, yet their
functioning is threatened by anthropogenic disturbances and climate change. Global actions …

Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long‐term drought

J Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, I Oliveras, S Rifai, S Fauset… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climatic changes have profound effects on the distribution of biodiversity, but untangling the
links between climatic change and ecosystem functioning is challenging, particularly in high …

Map** tree species vulnerability to multiple threats as a guide to restoration and conservation of tropical dry forests

T Fremout, E Thomas, H Gaisberger… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the vulnerability of tree species to anthropogenic threats is important for the
efficient planning of restoration and conservation efforts. We quantified and compared the …