Impacts of climate change on reproductive phenology in tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia.

ABSTRACT: In humid forests in Southeast Asia, many species from dozens of plant families flower gregariously and fruit synchronously at irregular multi-year intervals^1-4. Little is known about how climate change will impact these community-wide mass reproductive events. Here, we perform a comprehensive analysis of reproductive phenology and its environmental drivers based on a monthly reproductive phenology record from 210 species in 41 families in Peninsular Malaysia. We find that the proportion of flowering and fruiting species decreased from 1976 to 2010. Using a phenology model, we find that 57% of species in the Dipterocarpaceae family respond to both drought and low-temperature cues for flowering. We show that low-temperature flowering cues will become less available in the future i

SUBMITTER: Numata S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9023445 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature