Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

• DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw7578
• Publication Date: 2020-05-21T23:02:25Z
• Authors: Martin J. P. Sull...; Simon L. Lewis; Kofi Affum-Baffoe; Carolina Castilho; Flávia Costa; Aida Cuni Sanchez; Corneille E. N. E...; Wannes Hubau; Beatriz Marimon; Abel Monteagudo-M...; Lan Qie; Bonaventure Sonké; Rodolfo Vasquez M...; Timothy R. Baker; Roel J. W. Brienen; Ted R. Feldpausch; David Galbraith; Manuel Gloor; Yadvinder Malhi; Shin-Ichiro Aiba; Miguel N. Alexiades; Everton C. Almeida; Edmar Almeida de ...; Esteban Álvarez D...; Patricia Alvarez ...; Ana Andrade; Simone Aparecida ...; Luiz E. O. C. Aragão; Alejandro Araujo-...; Eric J. M. M. Arets; Luzmila Arroyo; Peter Ashton; Gerardo Aymard C.; Fabrício B. Baccaro; Lindsay F. Banin; Christopher Baraloto; Plínio Barbosa Ca...; Jos Barlow; Jorcely Barroso; Jean-François Bastin; Sarah A. Batterman; Hans Beeckman; Serge K. Begne; Amy C. Bennett; Erika Berenguer; Nicholas Berry; Lilian Blanc; Pascal Boeckx; Jan Bogaert; Damien Bonal; Frans Bongers; Matt Bradford; Francis Q. Brearley; Terry Brncic; Foster Brown; Benoit Burban; José Luís Camargo; Wendeson Castro; Carlos Céron; Sabina Cerruto Ri...; Victor Chama Moscoso; Jerôme Chave; Eric Chezeaux; Connie J. Clark; Fernanda Coelho d...; Murray Collins; James A. Comiskey; Fernando Cornejo ...; Massiel Corrales ...; Lola da Costa; Martin Dančák; Greta C. Dargie; Stuart Davies; Nallaret Davila C...; Thales de Haullev...; Marcelo Brilhante...; Jhon del Aguila P...; Géraldine Derroire; Anthony Di Fiore; Jean-Louis Doucet; Aurélie Dourdain; Vincent Droissart; Luisa Fernanda Duque; Romeo Ekoungoulou; Fernando Elias; Terry Erwin; Adriane Esquivel-...; Sophie Fauset; Joice Ferreira; Gerardo Flores Ll...; Ernest Foli; Andrew Ford; Martin Gilpin; Jefferson S. Hall; Keith C. Hamer; Alan C. Hamilton; David J. Harris; Terese B. Hart; Radim Hédl; Bruno Herault; Rafael Herrera; Niro Higuchi; Annette Hladik; Eurídice Honorio ...; Isau Huamantupa-C...; Walter Huaraca Hu...; Kathryn J. Jeffery; Eliana Jimenez-Rojas; Michelle Kalamandeen; Marie Noël Kamdem...; Elizabeth Kearsley; Ricardo Keichi Um...; Lip Khoon Kho; Timothy Killeen; Kanehiro Kitayama; Bente Klitgaard; Alexander Koch; Nicolas Labrière; William Laurance; Susan Laurance; Miguel E. Leal; Aurora Levesley; Adriano J. N. Lima; Janvier Lisingo; Aline P. Lopes; Gabriela Lopez-Go...; Tom Lovejoy; Jon C. Lovett; Richard Lowe; William E. Magnusson; Jagoba Malumbres-...; Ângelo Gilberto M...; Ben Hur Marimon; Andrew R. Marshall; Toby Marthews; Simone Matias de ...; Colin Maycock; Karina Melgaço; Casimiro Mendoza; Faizah Metali; Vianet Mihindou; William Milliken; Edward T. A. Mitc...; Paulo S. Morandi; Hannah L. Mossman; Laszlo Nagy; Henrique Nascimento; David Neill; Reuben Nilus; Percy Núñez Vargas; Walter Palacios; Nadir Pallqui Cam...; Julie Peacock; Colin Pendry; Maria Cristina Pe...; Georgia C. Pickav...; John Pipoly; Nigel Pitman; Maureen Playfair; Lourens Poorter; John R. Poulsen; Axel Dalberg Poulsen; Richard Preziosi; Adriana Prieto; Richard B. Primack; Hirma Ramírez-Angulo; Jan Reitsma; Maxime Réjou-Méchain; Zorayda Restrepo ...; Thaiane Rodrigues...; Lily Rodriguez Ba...; Anand Roopsind; Agustín Rudas; Ervan Rutishauser; Kamariah Abu Salim; Rafael P. Salomão; Juliana Schietti; Douglas Sheil; Richarlly C. Silva; Javier Silva Espejo; Camila Silva Valeria; Marcos Silveira; Murielle Simo-Dro...; Marcelo Fragomeni...; James Singh; Yahn Carlos Soto ...; Clement Stahl; Juliana Stropp; Rahayu Sukri; Terry Sunderland; Martin Svátek; Michael D. Swaine; Varun Swamy; Hermann Taedoumg; Joey Talbot; James Taplin; David Taylor; Hans ter Steege; John Terborgh; Raquel Thomas; Sean C. Thomas; Armando Torres-Le...; Peter Umunay; Luis Valenzuela G...; Geertje van der H...; Peter van der Hout; Peter van der Meer; Mark van Nieuwstadt; Hans Verbeeck; Ronald Vernimmen; Alberto Vicentini; Ima Célia Guimarã...; Emilio Vilanova T...; Jason Vleminckx; Vincent Vos; Ophelia Wang; Lee J. T. White; Simon Willcock; John T. Woods; Verginia Wortel; Kenneth Young; Roderick Zagt; Lise Zemagho; Pieter A. Zuidema; Joeri A. Zwerts; Oliver L. Phillips
• Keywords: Tropical climate; Tropical forest

Thermal sensitivity of tropical trees A key uncertainty in climate change models is the thermal forests and how this value might influence carbon fluxes. Sullivan et al. measured stocks fluxes permanent forest plots distributed globally. This synthesis plot networks across climatic biogeographic gradients shows that dominated by high daytime temperatures. extreme condition depresses growth rates shortens time resides ecosystem killing under hot, dry conditions. The effect temperature worse above 32°C, a greater magnitude thus risks loss stocks. Nevertheless, are likely to remain higher moderate if they protected from direct impacts such as clearance, logging, or fires. Science , issue p. 869