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 …

Government and international agencies have highlighted the need to focus global change
research efforts on tropical ecosystems. However, no recent comprehensive review exists …

Drought threatens tropical rainforests over seasonal to decadal timescales,,,, but the drivers
of tree mortality following drought remain poorly understood,. It has been suggested that …

Forest ecosystem models based on heuristic water stress functions poorly predict tropical
forest response to drought partly because they do not capture the diversity of hydraulic traits …

Deep‐water access is arguably the most effective, but under‐studied, mechanism that plants
employ to survive during drought. Vulnerability to embolism and hydraulic safety margins …

Tropical forests take up more carbon (C) from the atmosphere per annum by photosynthesis
than any other type of vegetation. Phosphorus (P) limitations to C uptake are paramount for …

Functional relationships between wood density and measures of xylem hydraulic safety and
efficiency are ambiguous, especially in wet tropical forests. In this meta‐analysis, we move …

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 …

Sustained drought and concomitant high temperature may reduce photosynthesis and
cause tree mortality. Possible causes of reduced photosynthesis include stomatal closure …

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