The tropical-subtropical evergreen forest transition in East Asia: An exploration.

ABSTRACT: The transition from tropical to subtropical (warm temperate) evergreen forests is more clearly apparent in East Asia, from Nepal to the western Pacific coast, than elsewhere in the tropics. We review the nature of this transition and hypothesize the physical, ultimately climatic, factors that may maintain it, with a special focus on how the increasing instability and warming of climates will affect these forests. A primary climatic mediator of the transition is proposed, thereby offering a testable hypothesis for the climate-forest transition relationship. What is known of this transition is summarized in context of the primary climatic mediators of elevational zonation of forest formations in equatorial Asia to the tree line, in the Himalaya at the India-Indo-Burma northern tropical margi

SUBMITTER: Ashton P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7567766 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature