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Higher resilience to climatic disturbances in tropical vegetation exposed to more variable rainfall

Tropical forests and savannah are more resilient to climate disturbances when they have been exposed to higher rainfall variability in the long-term past, finds an analysis of Brazilian rainfall and tree-cover observations.

Catrin Ciemer
Niklas Boers
Ricarda Winkelmann
Research25 Feb 2019
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 12, P: 174-179
Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

Analyses of drivers of water stress are used to predict likely trajectories of the Amazon forest system and suggests potential actions that could prevent system collapse.

Bernardo M. Flores
Encarni Montoya
Marina Hirota
ResearchOpen Access14 Feb 2024
Nature

Volume: 626, P: 555-564
Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests

A pan-Amazon study of forests shows large variations in drought tolerance traits and finds that forests in regions of pronounced climate change are losing biomass and may be operating beyond their hydraulic limits.

Julia Valentim Tavares
Rafael S. Oliveira
David R. Galbraith
ResearchOpen Access26 Apr 2023
Nature

Volume: 617, P: 111-117
Remotely sensed resilience of tropical forests

Remote sensing of tropical forest activity indicates that temporal autocorrelation—an indicator of slow recovery from stress—rises steeply as precipitation falls sufficiently. This offers some support for a tipping point for forest collapse.

Jan Verbesselt
Nikolaus Umlauf
Marten Scheffer
Research05 Sept 2016
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 6, P: 1028-1031
Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover

Climatic warming is intensifying the global water cycle, and is projected to increase rainfall variability. Higher interannual variability in rainfall is shown to reduce tree cover in the wet tropics, but may promote expansion of cover in tropical dry lands.

Milena Holmgren
Marina Hirota
Marten Scheffer
Research02 Jun 2013
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 3, P: 755-758
A potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation may stabilise eastern Amazonian rainforests

Despite devastating global impacts, a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation with global warming could lead to cooler and wetter conditions in parts of Amazonia and less rainforest conversion, according to an analysis of climate observations and model projections for the 21st century.

Da Nian
Sebastian Bathiany
Niklas Boers
ResearchOpen Access12 Dec 2023
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 4, P: 1-11
Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks

Relatively little is understood about seasonal effect of climate change on the Amazon rainforest. Here, the authors show that Amazon forest loss in response to dry-season intensification during the last glacial period was likely self-amplified by regional vegetation-rainfall feedbacks.

Delphine Clara Zemp
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Anja Rammig
ResearchOpen Access13 Mar 2017
Nature Communications

Volume: 8, P: 1-10
The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora

Tree species turnover across Amazonian forests unveils sharp floristic transitional zones, that are linked with changes in soil fertility and climate.

Bruno Garcia Luize
Hanna Tuomisto
Hans ter Steege
ResearchOpen Access02 Oct 2024
Communications Biology

Volume: 7, P: 1-15
Help restore Brazil’s governance of globally important ecosystem services

Carolina Levis
Bernardo M. Flores
Charles R. Clement
Correspondence03 Feb 2020
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 4, P: 172-173
Experimental and computational framework for a dynamic protein atlas of human cell division

Quantitative live-cell imaging provides a dynamic protein atlas of mitosis.

Yin Cai
M. Julius Hossain
Jan Ellenberg
Research10 Sept 2018
Nature

Volume: 561, P: 411-415
Mapping native and non-native vegetation in the Brazilian Cerrado using freely available satellite products

Kennedy Lewis
Fernanda de V. Barros
Lucy Rowland
ResearchOpen Access28 Jan 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-17

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