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Abstract Tropical forests play a critical role in carbon and water cycles at a global scale. Rapid climate change is anticipated in tropical regions over the coming decades and, under a warmer and drier climate, tropical forests are likely to be net sources of carbon rather than sinks. However, our understanding of tropical forest response and feedback to climate change is very limited. Efforts to model climate change impacts on carbon fluxes in tropical forests have not reached a consensus. Here, we use the Ecosystem Demography model (ED2) to predict carbon fluxes of a Puerto Rican tropical forest under realistic climate change scenarios. We parameterized ED2 with species-specific tree physiological data using...
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These geospatial data sets were developed as part of a new analysis of all known current and historical rain gages in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico published in the journal article Murphy, S.F., Stallard, R.F., Scholl, M.A., Gonzalez, G., and Torres-Sanchez, A.J., 2017, Reassessing rainfall in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico: Local and global ecohydrological implications: PLOS One 12(7): e0180987, p. 1-26, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180987. That article provides a revised map of mean annual precipitation developed using elevation regression functions and residual interpolation, and that map is presented here in a raster file. Most previous forest- and watershed-wide estimates of precipitation...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Caribbean Islands,
Climatology,
Cuchilla el Duque,
El Yunque National Forest,
Icacos watershed, All tags...
Luquillo,
Mameyes watershed,
Pico del Este,
Puerto Rico,
Sonadora watershed,
Tropical Atlantic,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Water Resources,
climate change,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
elevation,
elevation/rainfall gradients,
evaporation,
field inventory and monitoring,
geoscientificInformation,
hydrology,
mountain precipitation,
precipitation (atmospheric),
tropical forest,
water budget,
water cycle,
water resources,
windward/leeward, Fewer tags
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