Double stress of waterlogging and drought drives forest–savanna coexistence

CRC Mattos, M Hirota, RS Oliveira… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

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 tipping point, inducing
large-scale collapse, has raised global concern,–. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests …

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 …

Tree Germination Sensitivity to Increasing Temperatures: A Global Meta‐Analysis Across Biomes, Species and Populations

E Vicente, M Benito Garzón - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate change is altering forest communities at an unprecedented pace. Current
knowledge on trees' responses to climate shifts is based mostly on adults. Yet, germination …

Increased hydraulic risk in assemblages of woody plant species predicts spatial patterns of drought-induced mortality

P Sanchez-Martinez, M Mencuccini… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Predicting drought-induced mortality (DIM) of woody plants remains a key research
challenge under climate change. Here, we integrate information on the edaphoclimatic …

Vapour pressure deficit modulates hydraulic function and structure of tropical rainforests under nonlimiting soil water supply

O Binks, LA Cernusak, M Liddell, M Bradford… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric conditions are expected to become warmer and drier in the future, but little is
known about how evaporative demand influences forest structure and function …

From tree to forest: Multiple carbon sink constraints

H Liu, L Zhang, Q Ma, W Zhao, Y Chen - The Innovation, 2023 - cell.com
Accepted: June 18, 2023; Published Online: June 20, 2023; https://doi. org/10.1016/j. xinn.
2023.100463© 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND …

Asymmetric response of Amazon forest water and energy fluxes to wet and dry hydrological extremes reveals onset of a local drought‐induced tipping point

N Restrepo‐Coupe… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the effects of intensification of Amazon basin hydrological cycling—manifest
as increasingly frequent floods and droughts—on water and energy cycles of tropical forests …

The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon

MN Garcia, TF Domingues, RS Oliveira… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding tree mortality under climate change‐induced droughts requires
knowledge of hydraulic trait distribution across environmental gradients. The spatial …

Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production …

CM Zarakas, ALS Swann, CD Koven… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forest photosynthesis can decline at high temperatures due to (1) biochemical
responses to increasing temperature and (2) stomatal responses to increasing vapor …