Urgent need for warming experiments in tropical forests

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2111-2121

  Cavaleri, Molly A ^a   Reed, Sasha C ^b   Smith, W Kolby ^c   Wood, Tana E ^d,e  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^e Fundación Puertorriqueña de Conservación   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Carbon flux; CMIP5; Ecosystem processes; Global warming; Net ecosystem production; Temperature; Temperature threshold; Tipping point; Tropics; Warming manipulation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; RESEARCH; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84928371404     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12860     Document Type: Article

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