Abstract
Climate change is altering forest dynamics in the tropics, with large potential impacts on forest structure and understory conditions. However, we found that canopy height distribution and openness remained stable over two decades in the western Amazon, and that gap creation rates would need to increase 300% before affecting equilibrium. Abstract in Spanish is available with online material.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1121-1126 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Biotropica |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 19 Oct 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Funding
We thank the Yasuní Scientific Research station and Universidad Católica del Ecuador for logistic assistance and Julia Svane, Nicole Larsen, and Stine Kjær Petersen for assistance with the fieldwork. We thank the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador for granting the research permit N° 002 -2019-IC- PNY- DPAO/AVS to carry out the present study.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Yasuní Scientific Research station and Universidad Católica del Ecuador | |
| Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica |
Keywords
- Canopy openness
- Yasuní National Park, Ecuador
- climate change impacts
- equilibrium canopy height
- forest dynamics
- transition matrix model
- understory light
