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Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth

Pieter A. Zuidema Orcid Logo, Peter Groenendijk Orcid Logo, Mizanur Rahman Orcid Logo, Valerie Trouet Orcid Logo, Abrham Abiyu Orcid Logo, Rodolfo Acuña-Soto Orcid Logo, Eduardo Adenesky-Filho Orcid Logo, Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez Orcid Logo, Claudio Roberto Anholetto Orcid Logo, José Roberto Vieira Aragão Orcid Logo, Gabriel Assis-Pereira Orcid Logo, Claudia C. Astudillo-Sánchez Orcid Logo, Ana Carolina Barbosa Orcid Logo, Giovanna Battipaglia Orcid Logo, Hans Beeckman Orcid Logo, Paulo Cesar Botosso Orcid Logo, Nils Bourland Orcid Logo, Achim Bräuning Orcid Logo, Roel Brienen Orcid Logo, Matthew Brookhouse Orcid Logo, Supaporn Buajan Orcid Logo, Brendan M. Buckley Orcid Logo, J. Julio Camarero Orcid Logo, Artemio Carrillo-Parra Orcid Logo, Gregório Ceccantini Orcid Logo, Librado R. Centeno-Erguera Orcid Logo, Julián Cerano-Paredes Orcid Logo, Rosalinda Cervantes-Martínez Orcid Logo, Wirong Chanthorn, Ya-Jun Chen Orcid Logo, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra Orcid Logo, Eladio Heriberto Cornejo-Oviedo Orcid Logo, Otoniel Cortés-Cortés, Clayane Matos Costa, Camille Couralet Orcid Logo, Doris Bianca Crispín-De-La-Cruz Orcid Logo, Rosanne D’arrigo, Diego A. David Orcid Logo, Maaike De Ridder, Jorge Ignacio Del Valle Orcid Logo, Mário Dobner Orcid Logo, Jean-Louis Doucet Orcid Logo, Oliver Dünisch, Brian J. Enquist Orcid Logo, Karin Esemann-Quadros Orcid Logo, Gerardo Esquivel-Arriaga Orcid Logo, Ze-Xin Fan Orcid Logo, Adeline Fayolle Orcid Logo, Tatiele Anete Bergamo Fenilli Orcid Logo, M. Eugenia Ferrero Orcid Logo, Esther Fichtler, Patrick M. Finnegan Orcid Logo, Claudia Fontana Orcid Logo, Kainana S. Francisco Orcid Logo, Pei-Li Fu Orcid Logo, Franklin Galvão Orcid Logo, Aster Gebrekirstos, Jorge A. Giraldo Orcid Logo, Emanuel Gloor Orcid Logo, Milena Godoy-Veiga Orcid Logo, Daniela Granato-Souza Orcid Logo, Anthony Guerra Orcid Logo, Kristof Haneca Orcid Logo, Grant Logan Harley Orcid Logo, Ingo Heinrich Orcid Logo, Gerhard Helle Orcid Logo, Bruna Hornink Orcid Logo, Wannes Hubau Orcid Logo, Janet G. Inga Orcid Logo, Mahmuda Islam Orcid Logo, Yu-Mei Jiang Orcid Logo, Mark Kaib Orcid Logo, Zakia Hassan Khamisi Orcid Logo, Marcin Koprowski Orcid Logo, Eva Layme Orcid Logo, A. Joshua Leffler Orcid Logo, Gauthier Ligot Orcid Logo, Claudio Sergio Lisi Orcid Logo, Neil Loader Orcid Logo, Francisco De Almeida Lobo Orcid Logo, Giuliano Maselli Locosselli Orcid Logo, Tomaz Longhi-Santos Orcid Logo, Lidio Lopez Orcid Logo, María I. López-Hernández Orcid Logo, José Luís Penetra Cerveira Lousada Orcid Logo, Rubén D. Manzanedo Orcid Logo, Amanda K. Marcon Orcid Logo, Justin T. Maxwell Orcid Logo, Omar N. Mendoza-Villa Orcid Logo, Ítallo Romany Nunes Menezes Orcid Logo, Mulugeta Mokria Orcid Logo, Valdinez Ribeiro Montóia, Eddy Moors Orcid Logo, Miyer Moreno, Miguel Angel Muñiz-Castro Orcid Logo, Cristina Nabais Orcid Logo, Anuttara Nathalang Orcid Logo, Justine Ngoma Orcid Logo, Francisco De Carvalho Nogueira Orcid Logo, Juliano Morales Oliveira Orcid Logo, Gabriela Morais Olmedo Orcid Logo, Daigard Ricardo Ortega-Rodriguez Orcid Logo, Carmen Eugenia Rodríguez Ortíz Orcid Logo, Mariana Alves Pagotto Orcid Logo, Shankar Panthi Orcid Logo, Kathelyn Paredes-Villanueva Orcid Logo, Gonzalo Pérez-de-Lis Orcid Logo, Laura Patricia Ponce Calderón Orcid Logo, Leif Armando Portal-Cahuana Orcid Logo, Darwin Alexander Pucha-Cofrep Orcid Logo, Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Paulo Quadri Orcid Logo, Jorge Andrés Ramírez Orcid Logo, Edilson Jimmy Requena-Rojas Orcid Logo, Judith Reyes-Flores Orcid Logo, Adauto de Souza Ribeiro Orcid Logo, Iain Robertson Orcid Logo, Fidel Alejandro Roig Orcid Logo, José Guilherme Roquette Orcid Logo, Ernesto Alonso Rubio-Camacho Orcid Logo, Raúl Sánchez-Salguero Orcid Logo, Ute Sass-Klaassen Orcid Logo, Jochen Schöngart Orcid Logo, Marcelo Callegari Scipioni Orcid Logo, Paul R. Sheppard Orcid Logo, Lucas C.R. Silva Orcid Logo, Franziska Slotta Orcid Logo, Leroy Soria-Díaz Orcid Logo, Luciana K.V.S. Sousa Orcid Logo, James H. Speer Orcid Logo, Matthew D. Therrell Orcid Logo, Ginette Ticse-Otarola Orcid Logo, Mario Tomazello-Filho Orcid Logo, Max C.A. Torbenson Orcid Logo, Pantana Tor-Ngern Orcid Logo, Ramzi Touchan, Jan Van den Bulcke Orcid Logo, Lorenzo Vázquez-Selem Orcid Logo, Adín H. Velázquez-Pérez Orcid Logo, Alejandro Venegas-González Orcid Logo, Ricardo Villalba Orcid Logo, Jose Villanueva-Diaz Orcid Logo, Mart Vlam Orcid Logo, George Vourlitis Orcid Logo, Christian Wehenkel, Tommy Wils Orcid Logo, Erika S. Zavaleta Orcid Logo, Eshetu Asfaw Zewdu, Yong-Jiang Zhang Orcid Logo, Zhe-Kun Zhou Orcid Logo, Flurin Babst Orcid Logo

Science, Volume: 389, Issue: 6759, Pages: 532 - 538

Swansea University Authors: Neil Loader Orcid Logo, Iain Robertson Orcid Logo

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Abstract

Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evaluate this risk, we assessed drought impacts in 483 tree-ring chronologies from across the tropics and...

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Published in: Science
ISSN: 0036-8075 1095-9203
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2025
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70087
Abstract: Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evaluate this risk, we assessed drought impacts in 483 tree-ring chronologies from across the tropics and found an overall modest stem growth decline (2.5% with a 95% confidence interval of 2.2 to 2.7%) during the 10% driest years since 1930. Stem growth declines exceeded 10% in 25% of cases and were larger at hotter and drier sites and for gymnosperms compared with angiosperms. Growth declines generally did not outlast drought years and were partially mitigated by growth stimulation in wet years. Thus, pantropical forest carbon sequestration through stem growth has hitherto shown drought resilience that may, however, diminish under future climate change.
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funders: NERC (NE/K01353X/1)
Issue: 6759
Start Page: 532
End Page: 538