The great carbon sink stopped working in 2016.
Of the 123 plots studied, 119 experienced an average monthly temperature increase of 0.5C. Ninety nine of the plots also suffered water deficits. Where it was hotter, it was also drier.
That collapsed to zero with the hotter and drier El Niño conditions due to biomass being lost through the death of trees.The researchers say that the greatest relative impacts of the El Niño event were in forests where the long-term climate was already relatively dry. However, the opposite was the case – forests more used to a drier climate at the dry periphery of the tropical forest biome turned out to be most vulnerable to drought.
Professor Oliver Phillips, an ecologist at the University of Leeds who supervised the research, said the new findings offer hope about the resilience of the South American tropical nature.
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