Climate change risks to global forest health: emergence of unexpected events of elevated tree mortality worldwide

H Hartmann, A Bastos, AJ Das… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Recent observations of elevated tree mortality following climate extremes, like heat and
drought, raise concerns about climate change risks to global forest health. We currently lack …

Will seasonally dry tropical forests be sensitive or resistant to future changes in rainfall regimes?

K Allen, JM Dupuy, MG Gei, C Hulshof… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) are located in regions with alternating wet and dry
seasons, with dry seasons that last several months or more. By the end of the 21st century …

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

BM Flores, E Montoya, B Sakschewski, N Nascimento… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tip** point, inducing
large-scale collapse, has raised global concern,–. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests …

Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests

JV Tavares, RS Oliveira, M Mencuccini… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Tropical forests face increasing climate risk,, yet our ability to predict their response to
climate change is limited by poor understanding of their resistance to water stress. Although …

Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

C Levis, FRC Costa, F Bongers, M Peña-Claros… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly
debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian …

Recurrent droughts increase risk of cascading tip** events by outpacing adaptive capacities in the Amazon rainforest

N Wunderling, A Staal, B Sakschewski, M Hirota… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Tip** elements are nonlinear subsystems of the Earth system that have the potential to
abruptly shift to another state if environmental change occurs close to a critical threshold …

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

A Esquivel‐Muelbert, TR Baker, KG Dexter… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Most of the planet's diversity is concentrated in the tropics, which includes many regions
undergoing rapid climate change. Yet, while climate‐induced biodiversity changes are …

Droughts, wildfires, and forest carbon cycling: A pantropical synthesis

PM Brando, L Paolucci, CC Ummenhofer… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Tropical woody plants store∼ 230 petagrams of carbon (PgC) in their aboveground living
biomass. This review suggests that these stocks are currently growing in primary forests at …

Hydrological niche segregation defines forest structure and drought tolerance strategies in a seasonal Amazon forest

M Brum, MA Vadeboncoeur, V Ivanov… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between rooting depth and above‐ground hydraulic traits can potentially
define drought resistance strategies that are important in determining species distribution …

Winner–loser species replacements in human-modified landscapes

BKC Filgueiras, CA Peres, FPL Melo, IR Leal… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Community assembly arguably drives the provision of ecosystem services because they
critically depend on which and how species coexist. We examine conspicuous cases …