Temperature rising would slow down tropical forest dynamic in the Guiana Shield.

ABSTRACT: Increasing evidence shows that the functioning of the tropical forest biome is intimately related to the climate variability with some variables such as annual precipitation, temperature or seasonal water stress identified as key drivers of ecosystem dynamics. How tropical tree communities will respond to the future climate change is hard to predict primarily because several demographic processes act together to shape the forest ecosystem general behavior. To overcome this limitation, we used a joint individual-based model to simulate, over the next century, a tropical forest community experiencing the climate change expected in the Guiana Shield. The model is climate dependent: temperature, precipitation and water stress are used as predictors of the joint growth and mortality rates. We r

SUBMITTER: Aubry-Kientz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6629855 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature