Browsing by Autor "Everton Cristo de Almeida"

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Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras
(Nature Portfolio, 2025) Timothy R. Baker; Stephen Adu‐Bredu; Kofi Affum‐Baffoe; Shin‐ichiro Aiba; Perpetra Akite; Miguel N. Alexiades; Everton Cristo de Almeida; Edmar Almeida de Oliveira; Esteban Álvarez‐Dávila; Christian Amani
Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2025) Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez; Sandra Dı́az; Sami W. Rifai; José Javier Corral‐Rivas; María Guadalupe Nava‐Miranda; Roy González‐M.; Ana Belén Hurtado‐M; Norma Salinas; Emilio Vilanova; Everton Cristo de Almeida
Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-biodiversity tropical forests. Here, we examined how tropical forests of the Americas have shifted community trait composition in recent decades as a response to changes in climate. Based on historical trait-climate relationships, we found that, overall, the studied functional traits show shifts of less than 8% of what would be expected given the observed changes in climate. However, the recruit assemblage shows shifts of 21% relative to climate change expectation. The most diverse forests on Earth are changing in functional trait composition but at a rate that is fundamentally insufficient to track climate change.
Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests
(Nature Portfolio, 2025) Martin J. P. Sullivan; Oliver L. Phillips; David Galbraith; Everton Cristo de Almeida; Edmar Almeida de Oliveira; Jarcilene Silva de Almeida‐Cortez; Esteban Álvarez‐Dávila; Luciana F. Alves; Ana Andrade; Luiz E. O. C. Aragão