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Alyssa Kullber: Aclimatación temporal de la tolerancia termal en árboles a lo largo del Río Hirviente en la Amazonía.

Sobre el artículo Es posible que las plantas tropicales sean particularmente vulnerables a las altas temperaturas asociadas con el cambio climático porque han evolucionado bajo condiciones relativamente estables y no estacionales. La investigación de la vulnerabilidad de las plantas tropicales a las altas temperaturas es un gran reto, especialmente en las tierras bajas, donde simplemente no hay una analogía del clima más caluroso del futuro, … Continue reading Alyssa Kullber: Aclimatación temporal de la tolerancia termal en árboles a lo largo del Río Hirviente en la Amazonía.

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Alyssa Kullberg: Seasonal acclimation of thermal tolerance in trees growing alongside the Boiling River in the Amazon

In our last post Alyssa Kullberg, postdoc at WSL in Lausanne, presents her work ‘Seasonal acclimation of photosynthetic thermal tolerances in six woody tropical species along a thermal gradient’. Here, she discusses the need to study warming, shows her incredible experimental system and shares her road in ecology from her early concerns about climate change.   A Spanish Translation of this blog post is available here. … Continue reading Alyssa Kullberg: Seasonal acclimation of thermal tolerance in trees growing alongside the Boiling River in the Amazon

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Daniel Zuleta: Do small-scale changes in topography affect functional trait variability in an aseasonal Amazon forest?

In our newest post Daniel Zuleta—a postdoc researcher at Smithsonian ForestGEO—presents his last work ‘Interspecific and intraspecific variation of tree branch, leaf, and stomatal traits in relation to topography in an aseasonal Amazon forest’. He presents the huge Amacayacu Forest Dynamics Plot, findings about the major impact that tree size exerts on tree functional traits, and how he changed his interests from forest plantations industry … Continue reading Daniel Zuleta: Do small-scale changes in topography affect functional trait variability in an aseasonal Amazon forest?

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