| dc.creator |
Dexter, KG |
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| dc.creator |
Pennington, T |
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| dc.creator |
Oliveira-Filho, AT |
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| dc.creator |
Bueno, ML |
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| dc.creator |
Silva de Miranda, PL |
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| dc.creator |
Neves, D |
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| dc.date |
2018-11-30T16:05:11Z |
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| dc.date |
2018-07-24 |
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| dc.date |
2018-11-30T16:05:11Z |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-27T01:03:27Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-05-27T01:03:27Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Vol. 6, article 104 |
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| dc.identifier |
10.3389/fevo.2018.00104 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34950 |
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| dc.identifier |
2296-701X |
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| dc.identifier |
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/241947 |
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| dc.description |
This is the final version. Available from Frontiers Media via the DOI in this record |
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| dc.description |
Tropical moist forests and savannas are iconic biomes. There is, however, a third principal biome in the lowland tropics that is less well known: tropical dry forest. Discussions on responses of vegetation in the tropics to climate and land-use change often focus on shifts between forests and savannas, but ignore dry forests. Tropical dry forests are distinct from moist forests in their seasonal drought stress and consequent deciduousness and differ from savannas in rarely experiencing fire. These factors lead tropical dry forests to have unique ecosystem function. Here, we discuss the underlying environmental drivers of transitions among tropical dry forests, moist forests and savannas, and demonstrate how incorporating tropical dry forests into our understanding of tropical biome transitions is critical to understanding the future of tropical vegetation under global environmental change. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Frontiers Media |
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| dc.rights |
© 2018 Dexter, Pennington, Oliveira-Filho, Bueno, Silva de Miranda and Neves. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
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| dc.rights |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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| dc.subject |
tropical dry forest |
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| dc.subject |
tropical moist forest |
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| dc.subject |
savanna |
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| dc.subject |
biomes |
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| dc.subject |
fire |
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| dc.subject |
soil fertility |
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| dc.subject |
water stress |
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| dc.subject |
deciduousness |
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| dc.title |
Inserting Tropical Dry Forests into the Discussion on Biome Transitions in the Tropics |
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| dc.type |
Article |
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