| Title: |
Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change |
| Authors: |
Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J.; Díaz, S.; Rifai, S.W.; Corral-Rivas, J.J.; Nava-Miranda, M.G.; González-M, R.; Hurtado-M, A.B.; Revilla, N.S.; Vilanova, E.; Almeida, E.; de Oliveira, E.A.; Alvarez-Davila, E.; Alves, L.F.; de Andrade, A.C.S.; Lola da Costa, A.C.; Vieira, S.A.; Aragão, L.; Arets, E.; Aymard C., G.A.; Baccaro, F.; Bakker, Y.V.; Baker, T.R.; Bánki, O.; Baraloto, C.; de Camargo, P.B.; Berenguer, E.; Blanc, L.; Bonal, D.; Bongers, F.; Bordin, K.M.; Brienen, R.; Brown, F.; Prestes, N.C.C.S.; Castilho, C.V.; Ribeiro, S.C.; de Souza, F.C.; Comiskey, J.A.; Valverde, F.C.; Müller, S.C.; da Costa Silva, R.; do Vale, J.D.; de Andrade Kamimura, V.; de Oliveira Perdiz, R.; del Aguila Pasquel, J.; Derroire, G.; Di Fiore, A.; Disney, M.; Farfan-Rios, W.; Fauset, S.; Feldpausch, T.R.; Ramos, R.F.; Llampazo, G.F.; Martins, V.F.; Fortunel, C.; Cabrera, K.G.; Barroso, J.G.; Hérault, B.; Herrera, R.; Honorio Coronado, E.N.; Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I.; Pipoly, J.J.; Zanini, K.J.; Jiménez, E.; Joly, C.A.; Kalamandeen, M.; Klipel, J.; Levesley, A.; Oviedo, W.L.; Magnusson, W.E.; dos Santos, R.M.; Marimon, B.S.; Marimon-Junior, B.H.; de Almeida Reis, S.M.; Melo Cruz, O.A.; Mendoza, A.M.; Morandi, P.; Muscarella, R.; Nascimento, H.; Neill, D.A.; Menor, I.O.; Palacios, W.A.; Palacios-Ramos, S.; Pallqui Camacho, N.C.; Pardo, G.; Pennington, R.T.; de Oliveira Pereira, L.; Pickavance, G.; Picolotto, R.C.; Pitman, N.C.A.; Prieto, A.; Quesada, C.; Ramírez-Angulo, H.; Réjou-Méchain, M.; Correa, Z.R.; Reyna Huaymacari, J.M.; Rodriguez, C.R.; Rivas-Torres, G.; Roopsind, A.; Rudas, A.; Salgado Negret, B.; van der Sande, M.T.; Santana, F.D.; Maës Santos, F.A.; Bergamin, R.S.; Silman, M.R.; Silva, C.; Espejo, J.S.; Silveira, M.; Souza, F.C.; Sullivan, M.J.P.; Swamy, V.; Talbot, J.; Terborgh, J.J.; van der Meer, P.J.; van der Heijden, G.; van Ulft, B.; Martinez, R.V.; Vedovato, L.; Vleminckx, J.; Vos, V.A.; Wortel, V.; Zuidema, P.A.; Zwerts, J.A.; Laurance, S.G.W.; Laurance, W.F.; Chave, J.; Dalling, J.W.; Barlow, J.; Poorter, L.; Enquist, B.J.; ter Steege, H.; Phillips, O.L.; Galbraith, D.; Malhi, Y. |
| Publisher Information: |
AAAS |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
White Rose Research Online (Universities of Leeds, Sheffield & York) |
| Description: |
Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-biodiversity tropical forests. Here, we examined how tropical forests of the Americas have shifted community trait composition in recent decades as a response to changes in climate. Based on historical trait-climate relationships, we found that, overall, the studied functional traits show shifts of less than 8% of what would be expected given the observed changes in climate. However, the recruit assemblage shows shifts of 21% relative to climate change expectation. The most diverse forests on Earth are changing in functional trait composition but at a rate that is fundamentally insufficient to track climate change. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
0036-8075 |
| Relation: |
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/223800/1/adl5414_CombinedPDF_v7.pdf; Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Díaz, S., Rifai, S.W. et al. (131 more authors) (2025) Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change. Science, 387 (6738). eadl5414. ISSN: 0036-8075 |
| DOI: |
10.1126/science.adl5414 |
| Availability: |
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/223800/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/223800/1/adl5414_CombinedPDF_v7.pdf; https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl5414 |
| Rights: |
cc_by_4 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.C4904D74 |
| Database: |
BASE |