Caatinga, the Brazilian dry tropical forest: can it tolerate climate changes?

• Published in: Theoretical and experimental plant physiology Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 83 - 99
• Main Authors: Santos, Mauro G., Oliveira, Marciel T., Figueiredo, Karla V., Falcão, Hiram M., Arruda, Emília C. P., Almeida-Cortez, Jarcilene, Sampaio, Everardo V. S. B., Ometto, Jean P. H. B., Menezes, Rômulo S. C., Oliveira, Antônio F. M., Pompelli, Marcelo F., Antonino, Antônio C. D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.03.2014
• Subjects: Biomedical and Life Sciences; Life Sciences; Original Paper; Global warming; Gas exchange; Caatinga; Drought tolerance; Plant ecophysiology; Semiarid recovery

Our review focuses on the projections of climate change in the Brazilian semiarid region, the Caatinga, based on recent publications about global climate change and biology. We found several vulnerable points in the initial estimates, the main one being that the data were collected and analyzed with...