Mortality of large trees and lianas following experimental drought in an Amazon forest.

By Daniel C. Nepstad, I. Tohver, David G. Ray, P. Moutinho, G. Cardinot. Ecology, 2007

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point (2008, background): “In this same experiment, a drought threshold was reached beyond which the mortality of large (above 30 cm in stem diameter) trees rapidly climbed sixfold (Nepstad et al. 2007a; Brando et al. 2008).”
Slow‐growing species cope best with drought: evidence from long‐term measurements in a tropical semi‐deciduous moist forest of Central Africa (2013, background): “…deciduous and large, leaf fall being a drought avoidance strategy during the dry season (Worbes 1999; Sch€ongart et al. 2002) that offsets the increased drought sensitivity due to their size (Condit, Hubbell & Foster 1995; Van Nieuwstadt & Sheil 2005; Nepstad et al. 2007; Phillips et al. 2010).”
Integrating plant–soil interactions into global carbon cycle models (2009, result): “Large-scale studies on ecosystem response to enhanced carbon dioxide (Norby et al. 2005), drought (Fisher et al. 2007; Nepstad et al. 2007; Meir et al. 2008), experimental warming (Wan et al. 2005) and fire (Balch et al. 2008) have all been established, but as yet, comparison of these results with…”
The role of forest genetic resources in responding to biotic and abiotic factors in the context of anthropogenic climate change (2014, background): “Tree species generally contain high genetic diversity in many of the traits and genes analysed, which supports this principle (Jump et al., 2008), but the potential of trees to respond to climate change should not be over-estimated (Nepstad et al., 2007).”
Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, background): “Rainfall reductions of 50–60% in 1 ha plots in the Amazon also showed strong declines in tree stem growth and wood production at 2, 4, and 7 years [da Costa et al., 2010; Nepstad et al., 2002, 2007].”
The Amazon basin in transition (2012, background): “Furthermore, there is evidence that certain taxa are more vulnerable to drought-induced mortalit”
Climate change impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean and their implications for development (2017, methodology): “…and Tapajós National Forest demonstrated that once deep soil water is depleted, wood production is reduced by up to 62 %, aboveground net primary produc- tivity declines by 41 %, and mortality rates for trees almost double (Nepstad et al. 2007; Brando et al. 2008; Costa and Pires 2010).”
Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity1 (2010, background): “This is significant given the high sensitivity of rainforest trees and lianas to drought (van Nieuwstadt & Sheil, 2005; Nepstad et al., 2007; Phillips et al., 2009), with the greatest effects of transpiration seen in the transition periods between dry and wet seasons.”