Authors
Oliver L Phillips, Geertje Van der Heijden, Simon L Lewis, Gabriela López‐González, Luiz EOC Aragão, Jon Lloyd, Yadvinder Malhi, Abel Monteagudo, Samuel Almeida, Esteban Alvarez Dávila, Iêda Amaral, Sandy Andelman, Ana Andrade, Luzmila Arroyo, Gerardo Aymard, Tim R Baker, Lilian Blanc, Damien Bonal, Átila Cristina Alves de Oliveira, Kuo‐Jung Chao, Nallaret Dávila Cardozo, Lola Da Costa, Ted R Feldpausch, Joshua B Fisher, Nikolaos M Fyllas, Maria Aparecida Freitas, David Galbraith, Emanuel Gloor, Niro Higuchi, Eurídice Honorio, Eliana Jiménez, Helen Keeling, Tim J Killeen, Jon C Lovett, Patrick Meir, Casimiro Mendoza, Alexandra Morel, Percy Núñez Vargas, Sandra Patiño, Kelvin S‐H Peh, Antonio Peña Cruz, Adriana Prieto, Carlos A Quesada, Fredy Ramírez, Hirma Ramírez, Agustín Rudas, Rafael Salamão, Michael Schwarz, Javier Silva, Marcos Silveira, JW Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonké, Anne Sota Thomas, Juliana Stropp, James RD Taplin, Rodolfo Vásquez, Emilio Vilanova
Publication date
2010/7/19
Journal
New Phytologist
Volume
187
Issue
3
Pages
631-646
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Description
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    These findings …
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Scholar articles
OL Phillips, G Van Der Heijden, SL Lewis… - New Phytologist, 2010