Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems

RS Oliveira, CB Eller, FV Barros, M Hirota… - New …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical ecosystems have the highest levels of biodiversity, cycle more water and absorb
more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Consequently, these ecosystems …

The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large‐scale hydrological refugia from drought?

FRC Costa, J Schietti, SC Stark, MN Smith - New Phytologist, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forest function is of global significance to climate change responses, and critically
determined by water availability patterns. Groundwater is tightly related to soil water through …

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 …

Climate and land management accelerate the Brazilian water cycle

VBP Chagas, PLB Chaffe, G Blöschl - Nature Communications, 2022‏ - nature.com
Increasing floods and droughts are raising concerns of an accelerating water cycle,
however, the relative contributions to streamflow changes from climate and land …

Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s

CA Boulton, TM Lenton, N Boers - Nature Climate Change, 2022‏ - nature.com
The resilience of the Amazon rainforest to climate and land-use change is crucial for
biodiversity, regional climate and the global carbon cycle. Deforestation and climate change …

Forest-rainfall cascades buffer against drought across the Amazon

A Staal, OA Tuinenburg, JHC Bosmans… - Nature Climate …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Tree transpiration in the Amazon may enhance rainfall for downwind forests. Until now it has
been unclear how this cascading effect plays out across the basin. Here, we calculate local …

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 …

Forest fires and deforestation in the central Amazon: Effects of landscape and climate on spatial and temporal dynamics

M Dos Reis, PML de Alencastro Graça… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Forest fires and deforestation are the main threats to the Amazon forest. Extreme drought
events exacerbate the impact of forest fire in the Amazon, and these drought events are …

Double stress of waterlogging and drought drives forest–savanna coexistence

CRC Mattos, M Hirota, RS Oliveira, BM Flores… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Forest–savanna boundaries are ecotones that support complex ecosystem functions and
are sensitive to biotic/abiotic perturbations. What drives their distribution today and how it …

The Andes–Amazon–Atlantic pathway: A foundational hydroclimate system for social–ecological system sustainability

CF Beveridge, JC Espinoza, S Athayde… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
The Amazon River Basin's extraordinary social–ecological system is sustained by various
water phases, fluxes, and stores that are interconnected across the tropical Andes …