• Climate Impacts

    • Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests

      • Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht, Liza S. Comita, Richard Condit, Thomas A. Kursar, Melvin T. Tyree, Benjamin L. Turner, Stephen P. Hubbell,
      • Original article citation: Nature 447, (2007).
      • Categories: Climate Impacts and Biodiversity & Ecology
      • Recommended by: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:21PM GMT
      • Reasons for recommending:
        This paper, by Bettina Engelbrecht of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and collegues, was published in Nature in early May. Based on a nice set of field experiments, the study suggests that changes in soil moisture availability caused by climate change, together with forest fragmentation, are likely to alter tropical species distributions, community structure and diversity in the future.

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