Changes in the potential distribution of humid tropical forests on a warmer planet

• Published in: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences Vol. 369; no. 1934; pp. 137 - 160
• Main Authors: Zelazowski, Przemyslaw, Malhi, Yadvinder, Huntingford, Chris, Sitch, Stephen, Fisher, Joshua B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England The Royal Society 13.01.2011; The Royal Society Publishing
• Subjects: Atmosphere; Carbon Dioxide; Carbon Dioxide - chemistry; Climate; Climate Change; Climate models; Climate Patterns; Climatic zones; Conservation of Natural Resources; Earth (Planet); Ecology; Global climate models; Global Warming; Maximum Climatological Water Deficit; Models, Theoretical; Montane forests; Oceans and Seas; Precipitation; Risk; Temperature; Trees; Tropical Climate; Tropical climates; Tropical Forests; Tropical regions; Water Stress; Water Supply

The future of tropical forests has become one of the iconic issues in climate-change science. A number of studies that have explored this subject have tended to focus on the output from one or a few climate models, which work at low spatial resolution, whereas society and conservation-relevant asses...