Extreme and Highly Heterogeneous Microclimates in Selectively Logged Tropical Forests
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F18%3A43917292" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/18:43917292 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2018.00005" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2018.00005</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2018.00005" target="_blank" >10.3389/ffgc.2018.00005</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Extreme and Highly Heterogeneous Microclimates in Selectively Logged Tropical Forests
Original language description
Microclimate within forests influences ecosystem fluxes and demographic rates. Anthropogenic disturbances, such as selective logging can affect within-forest microclimate through effects on forest structure, leading to indirect effects on forests beyond the immediate impact of logging. However, the scope and predictability of these effects remains poorly understood. Here we use a microclimate thermal proxy (sensitive to radiative, convective, and conductive heat fluxes) measured at the forest floor in three 1-ha forest plots spanning a logging intensity gradient in Malaysian Borneo. We show (1) that thermal proxy ranges and spatiotemporal heterogeneity are doubled between old growth and heavily logged forests, with extremes often exceeding 45 degrees C, (2) that nearby weather station air temperatures provide estimates of maximum thermal proxy values that are biased down by 5-10 degrees C, and (3) that lower canopy density, higher canopy height, and higher biomass removal are associated with higher maximum temperatures. Thus, logged forests are less buffered from regional climate change than old growth forests, and experience much higher microclimate extremes and heterogeneity. Better predicting the linkages between regional climate and its effects on within-forest microclimate will be critical for understanding the wide range of conditions experienced within tropical forests.
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
40102 - Forestry
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LTT17017" target="_blank" >LTT17017: Participation of Czech scientists in the SBE experiment</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
ISSN
2624-893X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
1
Issue of the periodical within the volume
26 October
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
5
UT code for WoS article
000505249600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85059856874