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SUBMITTER: Staal A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7536390 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Staal Arie A Fetzer Ingo I Wang-Erlandsson Lan L Bosmans Joyce H C JHC Dekker Stefan C SC van Nes Egbert H EH Rockström Johan J Tuinenburg Obbe A OA
Nature communications 20201005 1
Tropical forests modify the conditions they depend on through feedbacks at different spatial scales. These feedbacks shape the hysteresis (history-dependence) of tropical forests, thus controlling their resilience to deforestation and response to climate change. Here, we determine the emergent hysteresis from local-scale tipping points and regional-scale forest-rainfall feedbacks across the tropics under the recent climate and a severe climate-change scenario. By integrating remote sensing, a gl ...[more]