Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly

Amy Bennett; Thaiane Rodrigues de Sousa; Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza; Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert; Paulo Morandi; Fernanda Coelho de Souza; Wendeson Castro; Luisa Fernanda Duque; Gerardo Flores Llampazo; Rubens Manoel dos Santos; Eliana Ramos; Emilio Vilanova Torre; Esteban Alvarez-Dávila; Timothy Baker; Flávia Costa; Simon Lewis; Beatriz Marimon; Juliana Schietti; Benoît Burban; Erika Berenguer; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Zorayda Restrepo Correa; Wilmar Lopez; Flávia Delgado Santana; Laura Jessica Viscarra; Fernando Elias; Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez; Ben Hur Marimon-Junior; David Galbraith; Martin Sullivan; Thaise Emilio; Nayane Prestes; Jos Barlow; Nathalle Cristine Alencar Fagundes; Edmar Almeida de Oliveira; Patricia Alvarez Loayza; Luciana Alves; Simone Aparecida Vieira; Vinícius Andrade Maia; Luiz Aragão; Eric Arets; Luzmila Arroyo; Olaf Banki; Christopher Baraloto; Plínio Barbosa Camargo; Jorcely Barroso; Wilder Bento da Silva; Damien Bonal; Alisson Borges Miranda Santos; Roel Brienen; Foster Brown; Carolina Volkmer Castilho; Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro; Victor Chama Moscoso; Ezequiel Chavez; James Comiskey; Fernando Cornejo Valverde; Nállarett Dávila Cardozo; Natália de Aguiar-Campos; Lia de Oliveira Melo; Jhon del Aguila-Pasquel; Géraldine Derroire; Mathias Disney; Maria Do Socorro; Aurélie Dourdain; Ted Feldpausch; Joice Ferreira; Valeria Forni Martins; Toby Gardner; Emanuel Gloor; Gloria Gutierrez Sibauty; René Guillen; Eduardo Hase; Bruno Hérault; Eurídice Honorio Coronado; Walter Huaraca Huasco; John Janovec; Eliana Jimenez-Rojas; Carlos Joly; Michelle Kalamandeen; Timothy Killeen; Camila Lais Farrapo; Aurora Levesley; Leon Lizon Romano; Gabriela Lopez Gonzalez; Flavio Antonio Maës dos Santos; William Magnusson; Yadvinder Malhi; Simone Matias de Almeida Reis; Karina Melgaço; Omar Melo Cruz; Irina Mendoza Polo; Tatiana Montañez; Jean Daniel Morel; M Percy Núñez Vargas; Raimunda Oliveira de Araújo; Nadir Pallqui Camacho; Alexander Parada Gutierrez; Toby Pennington; Georgia Pickavance; John Pipoly; Nigel Pitman; Carlos Quesada; Freddy Ramirez Arevalo; Hirma Ramírez-Angulo; Rafael Flora Ramos; James Richardson; Cléber Rodrigo de Souza; Anand Roopsind; Gustavo Schwartz; Richarlly Silva; Javier Silva Espejo; Marcos Silveira; James Singh; Yhan Soto Shareva; Marc Steininger; Juliana Stropp; Joey Talbot; Hans ter Steege; John Terborgh; Raquel Thomas; Luis Valenzuela Gamarra; Geertje van der Heijden; Peter van der Hout; Roderick Zagt; Oliver Phillips

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Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly

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Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly

Amy Bennett, Thaiane Rodrigues de Sousa, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, Paulo Morandi, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Wendeson Castro, Luisa Fernanda Duque, Gerardo Flores Llampazo, Rubens Manoel dos Santos, …

Nature Climate Change, Vol.13(9), pp.967-974

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01776-4

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The tropical forest carbon sink is known to be drought sensitive, but it is unclear which forests are the most vulnerable to extreme events. Forests with hotter and drier baseline conditions may be protected by prior adaptation, or more vulnerable because they operate closer to physiological limits. Here we report that forests in drier South American climates experienced the greatest impacts of the 2015–2016 El Niño, indicating greater vulnerability to extreme temperatures and drought. The long-term, ground-measured tree-by-tree responses of 123 forest plots across tropical South America show that the biomass carbon sink ceased during the event with carbon balance becoming indistinguishable from zero (−0.02 ± 0.37 Mg C ha$^{−1}$ per year). However, intact tropical South American forests overall were no more sensitive to the extreme 2015–2016 El Niño than to previous less intense events, remaining a key defence against climate change as long as they are protected.

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Title: Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly
Creators - without role: Amy Bennett - University of Leeds
Thaiane Rodrigues de Sousa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza - Missouri Botanical Garden
Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert - University of Birmingham
Paulo Morandi - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Fernanda Coelho de Souza - Universidade de Brasília
Wendeson Castro - Universidade Federal do Acre
Luisa Fernanda Duque - Fundación Con Vida
Gerardo Flores Llampazo
Rubens Manoel dos Santos - Universidade Federal de Lavras
Eliana Ramos - Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica
Emilio Vilanova Torre - Wildlife Conservation Society
Esteban Alvarez-Dávila - University College of London [London]
Timothy Baker - University of Leeds
Flávia Costa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Simon Lewis - University of Leeds
Beatriz Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Juliana Schietti - Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Benoît Burban - Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
Erika Berenguer - University of Oxford
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Zorayda Restrepo Correa
Wilmar Lopez - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Flávia Delgado Santana - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Laura Jessica Viscarra - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Fernando Elias - Universidade Federal do Pará
Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez - Missouri Botanical Garden
Ben Hur Marimon-Junior - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
David Galbraith - University of Leeds
Martin Sullivan - Manchester Metropolitan University
Thaise Emilio - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Nayane Prestes - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Jos Barlow - Lancaster University
Nathalle Cristine Alencar Fagundes - Universidade Federal de Lavras
Edmar Almeida de Oliveira - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Patricia Alvarez Loayza - Duke University
Luciana Alves - University of California, Los Angeles
Simone Aparecida Vieira - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Vinícius Andrade Maia - Universidade Federal de Lavras
Luiz Aragão - Department of Space
Eric Arets - Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra)
Luzmila Arroyo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Olaf Banki - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Christopher Baraloto - Florida International University
Plínio Barbosa Camargo - Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura
Jorcely Barroso - Universidade Federal do Acre
Wilder Bento da Silva - Universidade Federal de Lavras
Damien Bonal - Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
Alisson Borges Miranda Santos - Universidade Federal de Lavras
Roel Brienen - University of Leeds
Foster Brown - Woodwell Climate Research Center
Carolina Volkmer Castilho - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro - Universidade Federal do Acre
Victor Chama Moscoso - Missouri Botanical Garden
Ezequiel Chavez - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
James Comiskey - National Park Service
Fernando Cornejo Valverde
Nállarett Dávila Cardozo - Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana
Natália de Aguiar-Campos - Universidade Federal de Lavras
Lia de Oliveira Melo - Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará
Jhon del Aguila-Pasquel - Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana
Géraldine Derroire - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Mathias Disney - University College London
Maria Do Socorro
Aurélie Dourdain - Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
Ted Feldpausch - University of Exeter
Joice Ferreira - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Valeria Forni Martins - Bolsista do Programa Nacional de Pós-Doutorado - Departamento de Entomologia
Toby Gardner - Stockholm Environment Institute
Emanuel Gloor - University of Leeds
Gloria Gutierrez Sibauty
René Guillen
Eduardo Hase - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Bruno Hérault - Forests and Societies
Eurídice Honorio Coronado - University of St Andrews
Walter Huaraca Huasco - Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco
John Janovec - Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
Eliana Jimenez-Rojas - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Carlos Joly - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Michelle Kalamandeen - University of Cambridge
Timothy Killeen - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Camila Lais Farrapo - Universidade Federal de Lavras
Aurora Levesley - University of Leeds
Leon Lizon Romano - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Gabriela Lopez Gonzalez - University of Leeds
Flavio Antonio Maës dos Santos - Bolsista do Programa Nacional de Pós-Doutorado - Departamento de Entomologia
William Magnusson - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Yadvinder Malhi - University of Oxford
Simone Matias de Almeida Reis - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Karina Melgaço - University of Leeds
Omar Melo Cruz - Universidad del Tolima
Irina Mendoza Polo
Tatiana Montañez - Universidad del Tolima
Jean Daniel Morel - Universidade Federal de Lavras
M Percy Núñez Vargas - Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco
Raimunda Oliveira de Araújo - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Nadir Pallqui Camacho - University of Leeds
Alexander Parada Gutierrez
Toby Pennington - University of Exeter
Georgia Pickavance - University of Leeds
John Pipoly - Florida Atlantic University
Nigel Pitman - Field Museum of Natural History
Carlos Quesada - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Freddy Ramirez Arevalo - Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana
Hirma Ramírez-Angulo - University of the Andes
Rafael Flora Ramos - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
James Richardson - University College Cork
Cléber Rodrigo de Souza - Universidade Federal de Lavras
Anand Roopsind - Conservation International
Gustavo Schwartz - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Richarlly Silva - Universidade Federal do Acre
Javier Silva Espejo - Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco
Marcos Silveira - Universidade Federal do Acre
James Singh - Guyana Forestry Commission
Yhan Soto Shareva - Missouri Botanical Garden
Marc Steininger - University of Maryland, College Park
Juliana Stropp - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Joey Talbot - University of Leeds
Hans ter Steege - Utrecht University
John Terborgh - Florida Museum of Natural History
Raquel Thomas - Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development
Luis Valenzuela Gamarra - Missouri Botanical Garden
Geertje van der Heijden - University of Nottingham
Peter van der Hout
Roderick Zagt
Oliver Phillips - University of Leeds
Publication Details: Nature Climate Change, Vol.13(9), pp.967-974
Grant note: We highlight the principal investigtors and grants that funded the El Niño remeasurement campaigns: remeasurements in Peru were funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (grant number 5349; ‘MonANPeru: Monitoring Protected Areas in Peru to Increase Forest Resilience to Climate Change’), a Royal Society Global Challenges grant (Sensitivity of Tropical Forest Ecosystem Services to Climate Changes) funded the censuses in Colombia and Minas Gerais, CNPq grants (441282/2016-4, 403764/2012-2 and 558244/2009-2) funded the central Amazon Long-Term Ecological Project, FAPEAM grants 1600/2006, 465/2010 and PPFOR 147/2015 funded the PPBio plots in the central Amazon, and CNPq grants 473308/2009-6 and 558320/2009-0 funded the monitoring of Purus-Madeira interfluve.
Identifiers: 9935647209311
Academic Unit: Université de Montpellier
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-04593272