Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests
Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests
Martin J. P. Sullivan,S. Lewis,223 Authors,O. Phillips
2020 · DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.AAW7578
299 Citations
TLDR
This synthesis of plot networks across climatic and biogeographic gradients shows that forest thermal sensitivity is dominated by high daytime temperatures, and biome-wide variation in tropical forest carbon stocks and dynamics shows long-term resilience to increasing high temperatures.
