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Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates
2022; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 377; Issue: 6613 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1126/science.abo3856
ISSN1095-9203
AutoresAmy E. Zanne, Habacuc Flores‐Moreno, Jeff R. Powell, William K. Cornwell, James W. Dalling, Amy T. Austin, Aimée T. Classen, Paul Eggleton, K. Okada, Catherine L. Parr, E. Carol Adair, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Md Azharul Alam, Carolina Alvarez-Garzón, Deborah M. G. Apgaua, Roxana Aragón, Marcelo Ardón, Stefan K. Arndt, Louise A. Ashton, Nicholas A. Barber, Jacques Beauchêne, Matty P. Berg, Jason Beringer, Matthias M. Boer, José Antonio Bonet, Katherine Bunney, Tynan Burkhardt, Dulcinéia de Carvalho, Dennis Castillo‐Figueroa, Lucas A. Cernusak, Alexander W. Cheesman, Tainá Mamede Cirne-Silva, James Cleverly, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Timothy J. Curran, André M. D’Angioli, Caroline Dallstream, Nico Eisenhauer, Fidèle Evouna Ondo, Alex Fajardo, Romina Fernández, Astrid Ferrer, Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes, Mark L. Galatowitsch, Grizelle González, Felix Gottschall, Peter Grace, Elena Granda, Hannah M. Griffiths, Mariana Guerra Lara, Motohiro Hasegawa, Mariet M. Hefting, Nina Hinko‐Najera, Lindsay B. Hutley, Jennifer Jones, Anja Kahl, Mirko Karan, Joost A. Keuskamp, Tim Lardner, Michael J. Liddell, Craig Macfarlane, Cate Macinnis‐Ng, Ravi Fernandes Mariano, Marcela Méndez, Wayne S. Meyer, Akira Mori, Aloysio Souza de Moura, Matthew Northwood, Romà Ogaya, Rafael S. Oliveira, Alberto Orgiazzi, Juliana Pardo, Guille Peguero, Josep Peñuelas, Luis I. Pérez, Juan M. Posada, Cecilia M. Prada, Tomáš Přívětivý, Suzanne M. Prober, Jonathan Prunier, Gabriel W. Quansah, Víctor Resco de Dios, Ronny Richter, Mark P. Robertson, Lucas Fernandes Rocha, Megan A. Rúa, Carolina Sarmiento, Richard Silberstein, Mateus Silva, Flávia Freire de Siqueira, Matthew Glenn Stillwagon, Jacqui Stol, Melanie K. Taylor, François P. Teste, David Y. P. Tng, David Tucker, Manfred Türke, Michael D. Ulyshen, Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes, Eduardo van den Berg, Richard S. P. van Logtestijn, G. F. Veen, Jason G. Vogel, Tim Wardlaw, Georg Wiehl, Christian Wirth, Michaela J. Woods, Paul‐Camilo Zalamea,
Tópico(s)Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
ResumoDeadwood is a large global carbon store with its store size partially determined by biotic decay. Microbial wood decay rates are known to respond to changing temperature and precipitation. Termites are also important decomposers in the tropics but are less well studied. An understanding of their climate sensitivities is needed to estimate climate change effects on wood carbon pools. Using data from 133 sites spanning six continents, we found that termite wood discovery and consumption were highly sensitive to temperature (with decay increasing >6.8 times per 10°C increase in temperature)-even more so than microbes. Termite decay effects were greatest in tropical seasonal forests, tropical savannas, and subtropical deserts. With tropicalization (i.e., warming shifts to tropical climates), termite wood decay will likely increase as termites access more of Earth's surface.
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