Increased heat and drought stunt tropical trees, a major carbon sink

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Mar 31, 2022, 5:42 pm245 pts
For a long time, ecologists assumed tree rings to be absent in tropical trees because of a lack of temperature and rain fluctuations in the trees' environment. But in recent decades, the formation of growth rings has been proven for hundreds of tropical tree species, which are sensitive to drought and usually…

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