Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

Theory and evidence indicate that trees and other vegetation influence the atmospheric
water-cycle in various ways. These influences are more important, more complex, and more …

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 …

Evapotranspiration (ET) is the process by which liquid water becomes water vapor and
energetically this accounts for much of incoming solar radiation. If this ET did not occur …

Tropical peatlands contain one of the largest pools of terrestrial organic carbon, amounting
to about 89,000 teragrams (1 Tg is a billion kilograms). Approximately 65 per cent of this …

The responses of tropical forests to environmental change are critical uncertainties in
predicting the future impacts of climate change. The positive phase of the 2015–2016 El …

Forests act as 'pumps' through their evapotranspiration (E tot) and as 'sponges' by
enhancing soil infiltration capacity and moisture retention. Tropical deforestation and poor …

Global warming is an unanimously accepted phenomenon by the international scientific
community, being already highlighted by the analysis of observational data over long …

Tropical forests exert a more profound influence on weather patterns, freshwater, natural
disasters, biodiversity, food, and human health–both in the countries where forests are found …

Abstract Knowledge of variations in morphophysiological leaf traits with forest height is
essential for quantifying carbon and water fluxes from forest ecosystems. Here, we …