
Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests
2020; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 368; Issue: 6493 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1126/science.aaw7578
ISSN1095-9203
AutoresMartin J. P. Sullivan, Simon L. Lewis, Kofi Affum‐Baffoe, Carolina V. Castilho, Flávia R. C. Costa, Aida Cuní‐Sanchez, Corneille E. N. Ewango, Wannes Hubau, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Abel Monteagudo‐Mendoza, Lan Qie, Bonaventure Sonké, Rodolfo Vásquez, Timothy R. Baker, Roel Brienen, Ted R. Feldpausch, David Galbraith, Manuel Gloor, Yadvinder Malhi, Shin-Ichiro Aiba, Miguel N. Alexiades, Everton Cristo de Almeida, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Estebán Álvarez, Patricia Álvarez-Loayza, Ana Andrade, Simone Aparecida Vieira, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, E.J.M.M. Arets, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter S. Ashton, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Fabrício Beggiato Baccaro, Lindsay F. Banin, Christopher Baraloto, Plínio Barbosa de Camargo, Jos Barlow, Jorcely Barroso, Jean‐François Bastin, Sarah A. Batterman, Hans Beeckman, Serge K. Begne, Amy C. Bennett, Érika Berenguer, Nicholas J. Berry, Lilian Blanc, Pascal Boeckx, Jan Bogaert, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Matt Bradford, Francis Q. Brearley, Terry Brncic, Foster Brown, Benoît Burban, José Luís Camargo, Wendeson Castro, Carlos Cerón, Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro, Víctor Chama Moscoso, Jérôme Chave, Éric Chézeaux, Connie J. Clark, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Murray Collins, James A. Comiskey, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Massiel Corrales Medina, Lola da Costa, Martin Dančák, Greta C. Dargie, Stuart J. Davies, Nállarett Dávila, Thalès de Haulleville, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Jhon del Águila Pasquel, Géraldine Derroire, Anthony Di Fiore, Jean‐Louis Doucet, Aurélie Dourdain, Vincent Droissart, Luisa Fernanda Duque, Romeo Ekoungoulou, Fernando Elias, Terry L. Erwin, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Sophie Fauset, Joice Ferreira, Gerardo Flores Llampazo, Ernest G. Foli, Andrew Ford, Martin Gilpin, Jefferson S. Hall, Keith C. Hamer, Alan Hamilton, David J. Harris, Térese B. Hart, Radim Hédl, Bruno Hérault, Rafael Herrera, Níro Higuchi, Annette Hladik, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Isau Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Kathryn J. Jeffery, E. Jiménez, Michelle Kalamandeen, Marie Noël Kamdem Djuikouo, Elizabeth Kearsley, Ricardo Keichi Umetsu, Lip Khoon Kho, Timothy J. Killeen, Kanehiro Kitayama, Bente Klitgaard, Alexander Koch, Nicolas Labrière, William F. Laurance, Susan G. Laurance, Miguel E. Leal, Aurora Levesley, Adriano José Nogueira Lima, Janvier Lisingo, Aline Pontes Lopes, Gabriela López‐González, Tom Lovejoy, Jon C. Lovett, Richard Lowe, William E. Magnusson, Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte, Ângelo Gilberto Manzatto, Ben Hur Marimon, Andrew R. Marshall, Toby R. Marthews, Simone Matias Reis, Colin R. Maycock, Karina Melgaço, Casimiro Mendoza, Faizah Metali, Vianet Mihindou, William Milliken, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Paulo S. Morandi, Hannah L. Mossman, László Nagy, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, David Neill, Reuben Nilus, Percy Núñez Vargas, Walter A. Palacios, Nadir Pallqui Camacho, Julie Peacock, Colin A. Pendry, María Cristina Peñuela Mora, Georgia Pickavance, John J. Pipoly, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Maureen Playfair, Lourens Poorter, John R. Poulsen, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, Richard F. Preziosi, Adriana Prieto, Richard B. Primack, Hirma Ramírez‐Angulo, Jan Reitsma, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, Zorayda Restrepo, Thaiane R. Sousa, Lily O. Rodríguez, Anand Roopsind, Agustín Rudas, Ervan Rutishauser, Kamariah Abu Salim, Rafael P. Salomão, Juliana Schietti, Douglas Sheil, Richarlly da Costa Silva, Javier Silva Espejo, Camila V. J. Silva, Marcos Silveira, Murielle Simo‐Droissart, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, James Singh, Yahn Carlos Soto Shareva, Clément Stahl, Juliana Stropp, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, Trey Sunderland, Martin Svátek, Michael Swaine, Varun Swamy, Hermann Taedoumg, Joey Talbot, James Taplin, David Taylor, Hans ter Steege, John Terborgh, Raquel Thomas, Sean C. Thomas, Armando Torres‐Lezama, Peter M. Umunay, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Geertje van der Heijden, Peter van der Hout, Peter van der Meer, Mark van Nieuwstadt, Hans Verbeeck, Ronald Vernimmen, Alberto Vicentini, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Emilio Vilanova, Jason Vleminckx, Vincent Antoine Vos, Ophelia Wang, Lee White, Simon Willcock, John T. Woods, Verginia Wortel, Kenneth R. Young, Roderick Zagt, Lise Zemagho, Pieter A. Zuidema, Joeri A. Zwerts, Oliver L. Phillips,
Tópico(s)Fire effects on ecosystems
ResumoThermal sensitivity of tropical trees A key uncertainty in climate change models is the thermal sensitivity of tropical forests and how this value might influence carbon fluxes. Sullivan et al. measured carbon stocks and fluxes in permanent forest plots distributed globally. This synthesis of plot networks across climatic and biogeographic gradients shows that forest thermal sensitivity is dominated by high daytime temperatures. This extreme condition depresses growth rates and shortens the time that carbon resides in the ecosystem by killing trees under hot, dry conditions. The effect of temperature is worse above 32°C, and a greater magnitude of climate change thus risks greater loss of tropical forest carbon stocks. Nevertheless, forest carbon stocks are likely to remain higher under moderate climate change if they are protected from direct impacts such as clearance, logging, or fires. Science , this issue p. 869
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