This study evaluates drought survival mechanisms of tropical dry forest (TDF) trees based on
their functional traits (FTs). We addressed the following questions:(i) What are the dominant …

Understanding how tropical rainforest trees may respond to the precipitation extremes
predicted in future climate change scenarios is paramount for their conservation and …

In seasonal plant communities where water availability changes dramatically both between
and within seasons, understanding the mechanisms that enable plants to exploit water …

Considerable uncertainty surrounds the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on the
composition and structure of Amazon forests. Building upon results from two large‐scale …

Severe droughts have led to lower plant growth and high mortality in many ecosystems
worldwide, including tropical forests. Drought vulnerability differs among species, but there …

Summary 1 Patterns of water availability are frequently implicated in local and regional tree
species distributions. A major floristic and climatic transition from aseasonal to seasonal …

Plants are enormously diverse in their traits and ecological adaptation, even within given
ecosystems, such as tropical rainforests. Accounting for this diversity in vegetation models …

Extreme drought events have negative effects on forest diversity and functioning. At the
species level, however, these effects are still unclear, as species vary in their response to …

Water availability is the most important factor determining tree species distribution in the
tropics, but the underlying mechanisms are still not clear. In this study, we compared …

Predicting drought responses of individual trees in tropical forests remains challenging, in
part because trees experience drought differently depending on their position in spatially …