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 |
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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
Keywords
- Canopy openness
- Yasuní National Park, Ecuador
- climate change impacts
- equilibrium canopy height
- forest dynamics
- transition matrix model
- understory light