Title:	Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies.
Authors:	TREW, B. T. EDWARDS, D. P. LEES, A. C. KLINGES, D. H. EARLY, R. SVÁTEK, M. PLICHTA, R. MATULA, R. OKELLO, J. NIESSNER, A. BARTHEL, M. SIX, J. MAEDA, E. E. BARLOW, J. NASCIMENTO, R. O. do BERENGUER, E. FERREIRA, J. N. SALLO-BRAVO, J. MACLEAN, I. M. D.
Affiliation:	BRITTANY T. TREW, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER; DAVID P. EDWARDS, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE; ALEXANDER C. LEES, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY; DAVID H. KLINGES, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA; REGAN EARLY, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER; MARTIN SVÁTEK, MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO; ROMAN PLICHTA, CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE; RADIM MATULA, CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE; JOSEPH OKELLO, MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON UNIVERSITY; ARMIN NIESSNER, UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED FOREST SCIENCES; MATTI BARTHEL, ETH ZURICH; JOHAN SIX, ETH ZURICH; EDUARDO E. MAEDA, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI; JOS BARLOW, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY; RODRIGO OLIVERIA DO NASCIMENTO, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARÁ; ERIKA BERENGUER, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY; JOICE NUNES FERREIRA, CPATU; JHONATAN SALLO-BRAVO, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO; ILYA M. D. MACLEAN, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER.
Date Issued:	2024
Citation:	Nature Climate Change, 2024.
Description:	Tropical forest biodiversity is potentially at high risk from climate change, but most species reside within or below the canopy, where they are buffered from extreme temperatures. Here, by modelling the hourly below-canopy climate conditions of 300,000 tropical forest locations globally between 1990 and 2019, we show that recent small increases in below-canopy temperature (<1 °C) have led to highly novel temperature regimes across most of the tropics. This is the case even within contiguous forest, suggesting that tropical forests are sensitive to climate change. However, across the globe, some forest areas have experienced relatively non-novel temperature regimes and thus serve as important climate refugia that require urgent protection and restoration. This pantropical analysis of changes in below-canopy climatic conditions challenges the prevailing notion that tropical forest canopies reduce the severity of climate change impacts.
Thesagro:	Floresta Tropical Temperatura Mudança Climática
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02031-0
Type of Material:	Artigo de periódico
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em periódico indexado (CPATU)