Cusack, D.F. orcid.org/0000-0003-4681-7449, Reed, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-8597-8619, Andersen, K.M. orcid.org/0000-0002-1460-9904 et al. (10 more authors) (2024) Tropical forests and global change: biogeochemical responses and opportunities for cross-site comparisons, an organized INSPIRE session at the 108th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon, USA, August 2023. New Phytologist. ISSN 0028-646X
Abstract
Tropical forests play a critical role in the global carbon (C) cycle. These ecosystems maintain the highest rates of net primary production (NPP) on Earth (Hengl et al., 2017), contain c. 30% of terrestrial C stocks (Jobbagy & Jackson, 2000), and have some of the largest stores of fine-root biomass globally (Jackson et al., 1996), as well as higher fine-root production and turnover rates compared with other biomes (Cusack et al., 2021). Tropical forest responses to projected warming, altered rainfall regimes, and elevated C dioxide (CO2) concentrations (IPCC, 2021) are likely to be different from other ecosystems because of their unique characteristics (Box 1), making targeted research and model development important for understanding tropical forest–climate feedbacks. There is now a critical mass of long-term global change field experiments and modeling efforts in tropical forests, yet thus far there has been little synthesis, cross-site comparison, or multi-site standardized experimentation among tropical forests to help us understand how these biomes are changing. An organized INSPIRE session at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America set out to tackle just this. Speakers covered large-scale tropical forest field experiments and modeling efforts, with an emphasis on changes in ecosystem biogeochemistry under warming, drying, elevated atmospheric CO2, and changing nutrient status. In this meeting report, we provide an overview of the large-scale global change experiments presented and highlight the main objectives and opportunities for tropical forest research that emerged, including cross-site comparisons and integration with ecosystem-scale models (Fig. 1).
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2024 New Phytologist Foundation. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Cusack, D.F. , Reed, S. , Andersen, K.M. et al. (10 more authors) (2024) Tropical forests and global change: biogeochemical responses and opportunities for cross-site comparisons, an organized INSPIRE session at the 108th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon, USA, August 2023. New Phytologist. ISSN 0028-646X, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19511. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. |
Keywords: | drying; global change; nutrients; succession; warming |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Ecology & Global Change (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2024 12:20 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2025 01:13 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/nph.19511 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:208090 |