Vulnerability of Amazon forests to storm-driven tree mortality

• Published in: Environmental research letters Vol. 13; no. 5; pp. 54021 - 54030
• Main Authors: Negrón-Juárez, Robinson I, Holm, Jennifer A, Marra, Daniel Magnabosco, Rifai, Sami W, Riley, William J, Chambers, Jeffrey Q, Koven, Charles D, Knox, Ryan G, McGroddy, Megan E, Di Vittorio, Alan V, Urquiza-Muñoz, Jose, Tello-Espinoza, Rodil, Muñoz, Waldemar Alegria, Ribeiro, Gabriel H P M, Higuchi, Niro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.05.2018
• Subjects: Community composition; demography model; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Forest communities; Forest ecosystems; Forests; Mortality; severe convective systems; Storms; Trees; Tropical forests; Wind; winds; Brazil

Tree mortality is a key driver of forest community composition and carbon dynamics. Strong winds associated with severe convective storms are dominant natural drivers of tree mortality in the Amazon. Why forests vary with respect to their vulnerability to wind events and how the predicted increase i...