Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Resource acquisition and reproductive strategies of tropical forest in response to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation

  • Matteo Detto,
  • S. Joseph Wright,
  • Osvaldo Calderón,
  • Helene C. Muller-Landau

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03306-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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It has been suggested that tree phenology may be regulated by climatic oscillations. Here, Detto et al. present a 30 year tropical forest dataset that suggests leaf and fruit production is coordinated with ENSO cycles, with greater leaf fall observed prior to El Niño followed by greater seed production.