Martin Svátek

Jun 3, 2024 | nature.com | Brittany T. Trew |David Edwards |Alexander Lees |Regan Early |Martin Svátek |Radim Matula | +6 more

AbstractTropical forest biodiversity is potentially at high risk from climate change, but most species reside within or below the canopy, where they are buffered from extreme temperatures. Here, by modelling the hourly below-canopy climate conditions of 300,000 tropical forest locations globally between 1990 and 2019, we show that recent small increases in below-canopy temperature (<1 °C) have led to highly novel temperature regimes across most of the tropics.