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 …

In 2005 and 2010 the Amazon basin experienced two strong droughts, driven by shifts in the
tropical hydrological regime possibly associated with global climate change, as predicted by …

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

The fate of tropical forests under future climate change is dependent on the capacity of their
trees to adjust to drier conditions. The capacity of trees to withstand drought is likely to be …

Species distribution is strongly driven by local and global gradients in water availability but
the underlying mechanisms are not clear. Vulnerability to xylem embolism (P50) is a key trait …

Amazonian droughts are increasing in frequency and severity. However, little is known
about how this may influence species‐specific vulnerability to drought across different …

Atmospheric carbon dioxide records indicate that the land surface has acted as a strong
global carbon sink over recent decades,, with a substantial fraction of this sink probably …

The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tipping point, inducing
large-scale collapse, has raised global concern,–. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests …

Tropical rainforest woody plants have been thought to have uniformly low resistance to
hydraulic failure and to function near the edge of their hydraulic safety margin (HSM) …

Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon
uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic …