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Droughts Have Minimal Effect on Tropical Tree Growth – but Climate Change Worsening Tree Mortality

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20,000 tree ring samples shows remarkable growth resilience to droughts, but tree death could result in equivalent of Germany's annual CO2 emissions.
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A study conducted by an international team involving 126 institutions—including Embrapa Florestas—and recently published in the journal Science (“Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth”) revealed that, although tropical trees have withstood severe droughts over the last century, rising global temperatures are already beginning to compromise their recovery, which could increase the mortality of these plants in the fut…

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CicloVivo broke the news in on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
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