Recent observations of elevated tree mortality following climate extremes, like heat and
drought, raise concerns about climate change risks to global forest health. We currently lack …

Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) are located in regions with alternating wet and dry
seasons, with dry seasons that last several months or more. By the end of the 21st century …

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 …

The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly
debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian …

Tipping elements are nonlinear subsystems of the Earth system that have the potential to
abruptly shift to another state if environmental change occurs close to a critical threshold …

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 …

Most of the planet's diversity is concentrated in the tropics, which includes many regions
undergoing rapid climate change. Yet, while climate‐induced biodiversity changes are …

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 …

The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality.
However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a …

The relationship between rooting depth and above‐ground hydraulic traits can potentially
define drought resistance strategies that are important in determining species distribution …