Authors
Jason Vleminckx, J Aaron Hogan, Margaret R Metz, Liza S Comita, Simon A Queenborough, S Joseph Wright, Renato Valencia, Milton Zambrano, Nancy C Garwood
Publication date
2024/2
Journal
New Phytologist
Volume
241
Issue
3
Pages
1035-1046
Description
- Climate models predict that everwet western Amazonian forests will face warmer and wetter atmospheric conditions, and increased cloud cover. It remains unclear how these changes will impact plant reproductive performance, such as flowering, which plays a central role in sustaining food webs and forest regeneration. Warmer and wetter nights may cause reduced flower production, via increased dark respiration rates or alteration in the reliability of flowering cue‐based processes. Additionally, more persistent cloud cover should reduce the amounts of solar irradiance, which could limit flower production.
- We tested whether interannual variation in flower production has changed in response to fluctuations in irradiance, rainfall, temperature, and relative humidity over 18 yrs in an everwet forest in Ecuador.
- Analyses of 184 plant species showed that flower production declined as nighttime temperature and …
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