Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022 - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

Climate change in the tropics: ecological and evolutionary responses at low latitudes

KS Sheldon - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Climate change is affecting every ecosystem on Earth. Though climate change is global in
scope, literature reviews on the biotic impacts of climate change have focused on temperate …

Impacts of climate change on reproductive phenology in tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia

S Numata, K Yamaguchi, M Shimizu, G Sakurai… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
In humid forests in Southeast Asia, many species from dozens of plant families flower
gregariously and fruit synchronously at irregular multi-year intervals,,–. Little is known about …

The fate of Madagascar's rainforest habitat

TL Morelli, AB Smith, AN Mancini, EA Balko… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Madagascar has experienced extensive deforestation and overharvesting, and
anthropogenic climate change will compound these pressures. Anticipating these threats to …

Long-term monitoring reveals widespread and severe declines of understory birds in a protected Neotropical forest

HS Pollock, JD Toms, CE Tarwater… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Long-term studies on the population dynamics of tropical resident birds are few, and it
remains poorly understood how their populations have fared in recent decades. Here, we …

A cross‐scale approach to unravel the molecular basis of plant phenology in temperate and tropical climates

A Satake, A Nagahama, E Sasaki - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plants have evolved to time their leafing, flowering and fruiting in appropriate seasons for
growth, reproduction and resting. As a consequence of their adaptation to geographically …

Current issues in tropical phenology: a synthesis

K Abernethy, ER Bush, PM Forget, I Mendoza… - Biotropica, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We retrace the development of tropical phenology research, compare temperate phenology
study to that in the tropics and highlight the advances currently being made in this flourishing …

Effects of future climate change on the forests of Madagascar

D Hending, M Holderied, G McCabe, S Cotton - Ecosphere, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate change is continuing to occur at an alarming rate. In addition to increases in
global weather extremes, melting of polar ice caps, and subsequent sea level rises, climate …

Ecological correlates of elevational range shifts in tropical birds

MHC Neate-Clegg, SEI Jones, JA Tobias… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Globally, birds have been shown to respond to climate change by shifting their elevational
distributions. This phenomenon is especially prevalent in the tropics, where elevational …

Phenological responses to climate change based on a hundred years of herbarium collections of tropical Melastomataceae

DF Lima, JHF Mello, IT Lopes, RC Forzza… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Changes in phenological events have been vastly documented in face of recent global
climate change. These studies are concentrated on temperate plants, and the responses of …