Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions.

By Yadvinder S. Malhi, James Wright. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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What controls liana success in Neotropical forests (2008, background): “…al. , 2006; Zotz et al. , 2006), the increased turnover of trees (Phillips & Gentry, 1994; Phillips et al. , 2004), the recent warming of the tropics (Malhi & Wright, 2004) or even increases in hunting intensity which could © 2008 The Authors Global Ecology and Biogeography , 17 , 372–383, Journal…”
Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate. (2009, background): “Across the Amazon Basin there are two well-recorded gradients of resource availability, namely a northeast to southwest gradient of soil fertility (Quesada et al., 2009b) and a northwest to southeast gradient in precipitation and dry season length (Sombroek, 2001; Malhi and Wright, 2004).”
Flowering Patterns in a Seasonal Tropical Lowland Forest in Western Amazonia (2008, background): “First, weather does not behave the same way in all tropical forests (Malhi & Wright 2004).”
Biotic attrition from tropical forests correcting for truncated temperature niches (2010, background): “Temperatures have already risen measurably throughout much of the tropics over the past several decades (Vuille & Bradley, 2000; Malhi & Wright, 2004; Magrin et al., 2007) but there have been no reports of the expected mass losses of species from low-lying hot areas.”
Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm (2016, background): “The temperature increase was more pronounced since the 1970s and was attributed to the global temperature increase caused primarily by greenhouse gas emissions (51, 75, 76).”
Long‐term increases in intrinsic water‐use efficiency do not lead to increased stem growth in a tropical monsoon forest in western Thailand (2011, background): “Tropical surface temperatures are rising on average by 0.26 1C per decade (Malhi & Wright, 2004), possibly driving a deceleration of tree growth in some tropical forests by increasing water stress, and/or rates of respiration (Chambers & Silver, 2004; Feeley et al., 2007; Clark et al., 2009).”
Lianas may be favoured by low rainfall: evidence from Ghana (2007, background): “Reports suggest that lianas are now increasing in tropical forests as a result of the recent climatological trend, well documented by Malhi and Wright (2004), towards a reduction of rainfall in most of these regions.”
Climate change and poverty in Africa (2009, background): “Malhi and Wright ( 2004 ) noted declines in mean annual precipitation in the tropical rain forest area of around 4% in West Africa, 3% in North Congo, and 2% in South Congo for the period 1960–1998.”
Distribution patterns of tropical woody species in response to climatic and edaphic gradients (2012, background): “This is especially the case for climate, which may show strong directional changes over time (Malhi & Wright 2004) and to which long-lived tree species may lag behind in their response.”
Upslope migration of Andean trees (2011, neutral): “Global land surface temperatures have increased by approximately 0.02 C year)1 over the past several decades (Malhi & Wright, 2004; Hansen et al., 2006).”
Drought stress and tropical forest woody seedlings: effect on community structure and composition (2005, background): “2001; Malhi & Wright 2004).”
The influence of climate on the spatial patterning of Neotropical plant families (2007, background): “Although there is little consensus on the future climate of the Neotropics, some studies predict that the South American climate may be warming and drying (New et al., 2001; Vuille et al., 2003; Marengo, 2004; Neelin et al., 2006; but see Malhi & Wright, 2004).”
Climate change in the tropics: The end of the world as we know it? (2012, neutral): “26 C per decade (Malhi and Wright, 2004).”
Distributional migrations, expansions, and contractions of tropical plant species as revealed in dated herbarium records (2012, background): “More specifically, I test if the locations from which the study species have been collected have shifted directionally through time toward cooler areas as predicted by the concurrent ~0.025 °C yr 1 warming that has occurred within the region (Malhi & Wright, 2004).”
Odd man out: why are there fewer plant species in African rain forests? (2014, background): “Keywords Odd man out Neotropics South-East Asia Diversification rates Extinction Fossil record Biogeography Palms”