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Published online on April 28, 2003, 10.1073/pnas.0935903100
PNAS | May 13, 2003 | vol. 100 | no. 10 | 5852-5857


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Ecology
 Tropical rain forest tree growth and atmospheric carbon dynamics linked to interannual temperature variation during 1984-2000

D. A. Clark*,dagger , S. C. PiperDagger , C. D. KeelingDagger , and D. B. Clark*

* Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO 63121; and Dagger  Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093-0244

Edited by Christopher B. Field, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA, and approved March 12, 2003 (received for review September 30, 2002)

During 1984-2000, canopy tree growth in old-growth tropical rain forest at La Selva, Costa Rica, varied >2-fold among years. The trees' annual diameter increments in this 16-yr period were negatively correlated with annual means of daily minimum temperatures. The tree growth variations also negatively covaried with the net carbon exchange of the terrestrial tropics as a whole, as inferred from nearly pole-to-pole measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) interpreted by an inverse tracer-transport model. Strong reductions in tree growth and large inferred tropical releases of CO2 to the atmosphere occurred during the record-hot 1997-1998 El Niño. These and other recent findings are consistent with decreased net primary production in tropical forests in the warmer years of the last two decades. As has been projected by recent process model studies, such a sensitivity of tropical forest productivity to on-going climate change would accelerate the rate of atmospheric CO2 accumulation.

dagger To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: daclark{at}sloth.ots.ac.cr.

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