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  • Tropical ecology
  • Climate change impacts
  • Forest resilience

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  • Tropical forest ecosystems are highly sensitive to moisture availability.
  • Understanding drought impacts is crucial for predicting forest responses to climate change.

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  • To analyze pan-tropical and regional tree vulnerability to drought.
  • To identify factors influencing drought-associated tree mortality across diverse tropical forests.

Main Methods:

  • Assembled tree stem mortality data from 119 monitoring plots in 10 countries.
  • Analyzed data from before, during, and after recent drought events.
  • Focused on forests in Amazonia and Borneo.

Main Results:

  • Larger trees exhibited disproportionately higher mortality rates.
  • In Amazonia, low wood density trees were more vulnerable, independent of size.
  • Bornean trees showed greater vulnerability than Amazonian trees under similar drought intensities.
  • Drought impacts can be lagged, with elevated mortality persisting for up to two years post-event.

Conclusions:

  • Repeated droughts are likely to shift tropical forest composition towards smaller, denser-wooded species.
  • Extreme drought intensities may exceed critical thresholds, leading to catastrophic tree mortality.
  • Forest management and conservation strategies must consider these drought vulnerabilities.