we installed custom-made leaf-heater boxes to warm leaves from four mature tree species by 4°C—a temperature rise predicted for tropical systems by 2100. Boxes were made from plastic takeaway ...

Teeming with life and stretching across multiple continents, tropical forests are often called the “lungs of the planet” because of their ability to suck up climate-warming carbon dioxide and ...

Now, in the upper canopies of Earth’s tropical forests, roughly 1 in every 10,000 leaves experiences temperatures at least once a year that may be too high for photosynthesis, researchers report ...

Some leaves in tropical forests from South America to South East Asia are getting so hot they may no longer be able to photosynthesize, with big potential consequences for the world’s forests ...

The unified stomatal optimization (USO) series models have shown obvious biases in predicting stomatal conductance (gsw) of tropical rainforest trees, especially under low vapor pressure deficit ...

A pandemic of lianas is sweeping through tropical forests ... borrowing it from trees instead, and their leaves require less energy and nutrients to produce." A liana can quickly climb to the ...