Aguirre-Gutiérrez J., Díaz S., Rifai S. W., Corral-Rivas J. J., Nava-Miranda M. G., González-M R., Hurtado-M A. B., Revilla N. S., Vilanova E., Almeida E., de Oliveira E. A., Alvarez-Davila E., Alves L. F., de Andrade A. C. S., da Costa A. C. L., Vieira S. A., Fortunel Claire, Oliveras Menor Imma, Réjou-Méchain Maxime, et al. (2025). Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change. Science, 387 (6738), p. eadl5414 [1057 + 11 p.]. ISSN 0036-8075.
Titre du document
Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
Année de publication
2025
Auteurs
Aguirre-Gutiérrez J., Díaz S., Rifai S. W., Corral-Rivas J. J., Nava-Miranda M. G., González-M R., Hurtado-M A. B., Revilla N. S., Vilanova E., Almeida E., de Oliveira E. A., Alvarez-Davila E., Alves L. F., de Andrade A. C. S., da Costa A. C. L., Vieira S. A., Fortunel Claire, Oliveras Menor Imma, Réjou-Méchain Maxime, et al.
Source
Science, 2025,
387 (6738), p. eadl5414 [1057 + 11 p.] ISSN 0036-8075
Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-biodiversity tropical forests. Here, we examined how tropical forests of the Americas have shifted community trait composition in recent decades as a response to changes in climate. Based on historical trait-climate relationships, we found that, overall, the studied functional traits show shifts of less than 8% of what would be expected given the observed changes in climate. However, the recruit assemblage shows shifts of 21% relative to climate change expectation. The most diverse forests on Earth are changing in functional trait composition but at a rate that is fundamentally insufficient to track climate change.
Plan de classement
Sciences du milieu [021]
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Etudes, transformation, conservation du milieu naturel [082]
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010092924]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010092924
