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Ecophysiological Responses Of Tropical Woody Species To Ambient And Elevated Temperatures, Kelsey R. Carter
Ecophysiological Responses Of Tropical Woody Species To Ambient And Elevated Temperatures, Kelsey R. Carter
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
Tropical forests cycle one third of Earth’s carbon, yet we are still unsure how tropical vegetation will respond to climate warming. Tropical biomes experience a smaller temperature margin compared to other systems, possibly making them less capable of thermal adjustments. In addition, thermal responses of vegetation have been identified as one of the areas of greatest uncertainty for global carbon models. This dissertation works to quantify tropical forest photosynthetic responses to temperature as well as assessing physiological thermal acclimation of four tropical species. In Chapter, 2 we conducted a meta-analysis to investigate global tropical photosynthetic responses to temperature. We presented …