Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests
2010
Phillips, Oliver L. | van Der Heijden, Geertje | Lewis, Simon L. | Lopez-Gonzales, Gabriela | Aragao, Luiz E.O.C. | Lloyd, Jon | Malhi, Yadvinder | Monteagudo, Abel | Almeida, Samuel | Alvarez Davila, Esteban | Amaral, Ieda | Andelman, Sandy | Andrade, Ana | Arroyo, Luzmila | Aymard, Gerardo | Baker, Tim R. | Blanc, Lilian | Bonal, Damien | Alves de Oliveira, Atila Cristina | Chao, Kuo-Jung | Cardozo, Nallaret Davila | da Costa, Lola | Feldpausch, Ted R. | Fisher, Joshua, B. | Fyllas, Nikolaos M. | Freitas, Maria Aparecida | Galbraith, David | Gloor, Emanuel | Higuchi, Niro | Honorio, Euridice | Jimenez, Eliana | Keeling, Helen | Killeen, Tim J. | Lovett, Jon C. | Meir, Patrick | Mendoza, Casimiro | Morel, Alexandra | Vargas, Percy Núñez | Patino, Sandra | Peh, Kelvin S-H. | Cruz, Antonio Pena | Prieto, Adriana | Quesada, Carlos A. | Ramirez, Fredy | Ramirez, Hirma | Rudas, Agustin | Salamao, Rafael | Schwarz, Michael | Silva, Javier | Silveira, Marcos | Ferry Slik, J.W. | Sonké, Bonaventure | Thomas, Anne Sota | Stropp, Juliana | Taplin, James R.D. | Vásquez, Rodolfo | Vilanova, Emilio | University of Leeds | University of Oxford | Missouri Botanical Garden | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Belém, Brésil] (MPEG) | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia = National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) | Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network ; Partenaires INRAE | Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado [Bolivie] | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL | Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières [devient SILVA en 2018] (EEF) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Lorraine (UL) | Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana [Loreto, Perou] (UNAP) | Universidade Federal de Pará | The University of Edinburgh | Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP) | University of York | Manejo Forestal en las Tierras Tropicales de Bolivia ; Partenaires INRAE | Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) | Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt = Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute | Universidad de Los Andes, | Universität Bayreuth [Deutschland] = University of Bayreuth [Germany] = Université de Bayreuth [Allemagne] | Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC) | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | Université de Yaoundé I (UY1) | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin = Humboldt University of Berlin = Université Humboldt de Berlin (HU Berlin) | Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht] | Universidad de Los Andes [Mérida, Venezuela] (ULA)
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Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inglés. • The rich ecology of tropical forests is intimately tied to their moisture status. Multi-site syntheses can provide a macro-scale view of these linkages and their susceptibility to changing climates. Here, we report pan-tropical and regional-scale analyses of tree vulnerability to drought. • We assembled available data on tropical forest tree stem mortality before, during, and after recent drought events, from 119 monitoring plots in 10 countries concentrated in Amazonia and Borneo. • In most sites, larger trees are disproportionately at risk. At least within Amazonia, low wood density trees are also at greater risk of drought-associated mortality, independent of size. For comparable drought intensities, trees in Borneo are more vulnerable than trees in the Amazon. There is some evidence for lagged impacts of drought, with mortality rates remaining elevated 2 yr after the meteorological event is over. • These findings indicate that repeated droughts would shift the functional composition of tropical forests toward smaller, denser-wooded trees. At very high drought intensities, the linear relationship between tree mortality and moisture stress apparently breaks down, suggesting the existence of moisture stress thresholds beyond which some tropical forests would suffer catastrophic tree mortality.
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