Amidst droughts and hurricanes: managing a field warming experiment in Puerto Rico
Alonso-Rodríguez, Aura M.
Alonso-Rodríguez, Aura M.
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Climate change models predict that temperature in the tropics will increase by 3-5°C within the next 20 years, but there is high uncertainty on how this will affect tropical forests. The Tropical Responses to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE), a novel field warming experiment in a Puerto Rican rainforest, is attempting to address this question. TRACE is now the first experiment to evaluate how tropical forests respond to warming and large-scale hurricane disturbance. This presentation will summarize the most important results of this experiment to date as well as some of the challenges that we have faced along the way.
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2022-01-01
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Graduate
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Rubenstein School of Environmental and Natural Resources
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