ArticleNature2023
Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds.
Article in Nature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 204 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Global Meta-Analysis of Water Use Efficiency Proxies Reveals That UV Radiation Decreases Transpiration Without Improving WUE.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Pooled it
- Photosynthetic responses to temperature across the tropics: a meta-analytic approach.Annals of botany · 2025Pooled it
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- Thermal Safety Margins and Peak Leaf Temperatures Predict Vulnerability of Diverse Plant Species to an Experimental Heatwave.Plant, cell & environment · 2026Article
- Keeping up with the heat: long-term dynamics and plasticity of heat tolerance in a tropical plant community.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- NASA's ECOSTRESS satellite reveals widespread midday depression in ecosystem evapotranspiration.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Long-term decline in above-ground carbon sinks in Brazilian tropical and subtropical forests.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Local Adaptation to Current but Not Future Climate in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Population Genomic Evidence in a Neotropical Legume Tree.Evolutionary applications · 2026Article
- Increasingly severe thermal stresses on global photosynthesis using insights from observations of canopy temperature.National science review · 2026Article
- Individual Trees Respond to 40 Years of Climate Change Through Leaf Functional Trait Acclimation.Global change biology · 2026Article
- A potential overestimation of COProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Leaf temperature and its departure from ambient air temperature.Nature plants · 2026Review
- A Database of Plant Heat Tolerances and Methodological Matters.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Tropical forest trees with higher thermal optima of photosynthesis exhibit lower PSII heat stability.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Article
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- Vegetation responses to air dryness amplify future land surface warming.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Aridity and drought: distinct concepts often conflated in ecological research.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Evapotranspiration Everywhere, All the Time: Towards a Unified View From Earth Observation.Global change biology · 2026Review
- Impact of emerging compound droughts on forests: A water supply and demand perspective.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Review
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Authors and funding
18 authors at 14 institutions in 6 countries.
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Abstract
The critical temperature beyond which photosynthetic machinery in tropical trees begins to fail averages approximately 46.7 °C (T
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