Increasing day-length induces spring flushing of tropical dry forest trees in the absence of rain

By G. Rivera, S. Elliott, L. Caldas, Guillermo Nicolossi, V. Coradin, R. Borchert. Trees, 2002

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Seasonal variation in daily insolation induces synchronous bud break and flowering in the tropics (2010, background): “In the semi-deciduous tropical forests of Costa Rica and Thailand, increasing day length causes synchronous bud break of many deciduous tree species during the late dry season, in March (Borchert and Rivera 2001; Rivera et al. 2002; Elliott et al. 2006).”
Environmental control of flowering periodicity in Costa Rican and Mexican tropical dry forests (2004, background): “In contrast to the other 3 TDFs, in Jalisco there are no species with flowering peaks in April /May, which can be unambiguously identified as Spring species.”
Differences in growth patterns between co-occurring forest and savanna trees affect the forest-savanna boundary (2009, background): “Instead, there is some evidence that LFL in these environments can be triggered by photoperiod (Stubblebine et al. 1978, Rivera et al. 2002, Williams et al. 2008), whereas the timing may be under selection by factors other than soil water availability.”
Flowering Patterns in a Seasonal Tropical Lowland Forest in Western Amazonia (2008, background): “Tropical plant communities are composed of a diverse array of species, usually showing a variety of phenological strategies (Rivera et al. 2002, Diaz & Granadillo 2005, Singh & Kushawaha 2006), and to date, the effects of proximate factors driving phenological patterns have been assessed with…”
Phenology and wood density of plants growing in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil (2010, background): “equator (Borchert and Rivera, 2001; Borchert et al., 2005; Rivera and Borchert, 2001; Rivera et al., 2002).”
Why do evergreen trees dominate the Australian seasonal tropics (2005, background): “Leaf flushing at the end of the dry season, before rain falls, has been observed in deciduous trees in many savannas and dry forests throughout the world (Daubenmire 1972; Monasterio and Sarmiento 1976; Reich and Borchert 1984; Fatubarin 1985; Borchert 1994b; Devineau 1999; Bhat and Murali 2001; Riv”
Phenology of five tree species of a tropical dry forest in Yucatan, Mexico: effects of environmental and physiological factors (2010, background): “Considering both the wood density and the phenological patterns (leaf-fall and leafflush), and based on previously published groups (Rivera et al. 2002; Singh and Kushwaha 2005a; Borchert and Pockman 2005), the species studied appear to fall into three functional groups:”
Leaf functional traits of Neotropical savanna trees in relation to seasonal water deficit (2005, background): “However, deciduous species remain completely leafless for only short periods (a few weeks to t2 months) and leaf flushing occurs primarily in the late dry season (Table 1; Maia 1999; Naves 2000; Rivera et al. 2002).”
The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal (2013, background): “…to lower latitudes are likely to be less dependent on day length to regulate annual cycles of activity (although in dry seasonal climates near the equator even very small differences in seasonal day length can be utilised by plants to trigger phenological events; see Rivera et al., 2002).”