NatureDroughtsTropical ClimateTreesSeasonsSoil
Hot droughts in the Amazon provide a window to a future hypertropical climate.
Jeffrey Q Chambers, Adriano José Nogueira Lima, Gilberto Pastorello, Bruno Oliva Gimenez, Lin Meng, Lee A Dyer, Yanlei Feng, Cristina Santos da Silva, Regison Costa de Oliveira, Anna Weber, Charlie Koven, Robinson Negrón-Juárez, Gustavo C Spanner, Tatiana D Gaui, Clarissa G Fontes
Published: 202610.1038/s41586-025-09728-y
Abstract
Tropical forests represent the warmest and wettest of Earth's biomes, but with continued anthropogenic warming, they will be pushed to climate states with no current analogue1,2. Droughts in the tropics are already becoming more intense as they occur…
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