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Climate change is drying out canopy plants—that could mean less water for the entire rainforest

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Climate change is drying out canopy plants-that could mean less water for the entire rainforestEcophysiologists have started to uncover the outsized role of epiphytes in moving water through tropical forests, even as these orchids and ferns dry up.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2415456121

Author: Amy McDermott

Language: English

Topic: Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Life on land, Climate action

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4401785761

FWCI: 0.354

Cites: 10

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10