Ladies and gentlemen,

The article Climate Change Affects Reproductive Phenology in Lianas of Australia's Wet Tropics, indicated below, has just been published, summarizing the key findings of a 15-year study in tropical Australia's rainforests.

It provides evidence that liana assemblies in tropical Australia are changing significantly over time, especially in terms of increasing their fruiting and flowering.

This is highly relevant because lianas, as main structural parasites of trees, strongly influence the composition, dynamics and carbon storage of most tropical forests.

Climate change – especially rising temperatures and decreased rainfall – are apparently the main drivers of these changes.

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I am also attaching two documents of our long-term work in the Amazon, as we also find evidence that vine communities are also changing over time, again evidently in response to the drivers of global change.

If possible, we suggest that these articles be indicated and shared with interested colleagues and students.

All the best to all,

Article 1: Climate change affects reproductive phenology in lianas of Australia’s wet tropics.

Article 2: Long-term changes in liana abundance and forest dynamics in undisturbed Amazonian forests.

Article 3: An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change.

Source: EcoDebate