Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

PA Zuidema, F Babst, P Groenendijk, V Trouet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
variability in tropical tree growth is explained mostly by climatic variation during the dry
season. … -limited sites, wet-season climate drives annual tree growth and hence its interannual …

Climate seasonality and tree growth strategies in a tropical dry forest

AI García‐Cervigón, JJ Camarero… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
growth responses to climate variability among co-existing species may also be driven by
variations … Stem decrements in the dry season were particularly evident in some of the species …

Climatic change and seasonally dry tropical forests

P Meir, RT Pennington - Seasonally dry tropical forests: ecology and …, 2011 - Springer
… index but mainly because of the dry season decline in assimilation rates. However, … tree
species diversity, and these adaptations frame the likely responses by SDTF to climatic change. …

Tropical dry forest diversity, climatic response, and resilience in a changing climate

K Stan, A Sanchez-Azofeifa - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
… forest change and resilience under climatic variability, … are driven by seasonal patterns
variations in precipitation with the wet season bringing green-up and growth and the dry season

Temperature and rainfall strongly drive temporal growth variation in Asian tropical forest trees

M Vlam, PJ Baker, S Bunyavejchewin, PA Zuidema - Oecologia, 2014 - Springer
tropical tree growth and annual climate variability. We aimed to establish climategrowth
relationships for five annual-ring forming tree … example, prior dry-season maximum temperatures…

Divergent response of seasonally dry tropical vegetation to climatic variations in dry and wet seasons

X Wang, P Ciais, Y Wang, D Zhu - Global change biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… wet and dry season for vegetation response to variations of … the general view that tropical
vegetation growth reduces in … to temperature change is found to be regulated by local climate

Pan-tropical analysis of climate effects on seasonal tree growth

F Wagner, V Rossi, M Aubry-Kientz, D Bonal, H Dalitz… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… and alterations in seasonal climate variations. These changes … during the dry season because
photosynthesis continues … at the onset of the dry season to support respiration costs when …

Differences in climate-growth relationships between two tree species that co-occur in a seasonally dry tropical forest in Northeastern Brazil

CM Costa, MA Pagotto, JRV Aragão, CS Lisi - Dendrochronologia, 2023 - Elsevier
… between climate variability and tree growth responses between species with different growth
… glaziovii, in turn, stores water in the trunk to use in the dry season, which probably reflect …

Tree responses to moisture fluctuations in a neotropical dry forest as potential climate change indicators

P Butz, V Raffelsbauer, S Graefe, T Peters, E Cueva… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
… strong influences on tree phenology, growth and water turnover. … as indicator species for
climate change effects. The study was … change in circumference was low during the dry season. …

Growth of tree seedlings in a tropical dry forest in relation to soil moisture and leaf traits

RK Chaturvedi, AS Raghubanshi… - Journal of Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… by which seedlings of dry tropical trees cope with water stress … : How are leaf traits and
relative growth rate (RGR) of the … We suggested that variation in SMC determines variation in …