Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world's tropical forest canopies
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F24%3A100460" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/24:100460 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/62156489:43410/24:43925293
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02031-0" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02031-0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02031-0" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41558-024-02031-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world's tropical forest canopies
Original language description
Tropical forest biodiversity is potentially at high risk from climate change, but most species reside within or below the canopy, where they are buffered from extreme temperatures. Here, by modelling the hourly below-canopy climate conditions of 300,000 tropical forest locations globally between 1990 and 2019, we show that recent small increases in below-canopy temperature (<1 degrees C) have led to highly novel temperature regimes across most of the tropics. This is the case even within contiguous forest, suggesting that tropical forests are sensitive to climate change. However, across the globe, some forest areas have experienced relatively non-novel temperature regimes and thus serve as important climate refugia that require urgent protection and restoration. This pantropical analysis of changes in below-canopy climatic conditions challenges the prevailing notion that tropical forest canopies reduce the severity of climate change impacts.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40100 - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LTT19018" target="_blank" >LTT19018: Participation of the Czech Republic in the GEM network</a><br>
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Climate Change
ISSN
1758-678X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7.0
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
1-21
UT code for WoS article
001238184900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85195091858