Tropical Forests, Water Cycle, Global Cycles of Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

The consequences of climate change on human societies and terrestrial ecosystems are mainly experienced through changes to the global water cycle. As a result of global climate change, it is urgent to understand how tropical forests will be affected by more frequent and intense climatic extremes. Improvements in data to be used on climate models since the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5-IPCC) are related to inherent climatic model limitations (e.g., atmospheric convection, cloud–aerosol interactions, and land surface processes). Efforts to better understand how tropical forests interact with climate and water cycle (e.g., tropical forests process a lot of energy and water but are often poorly represented by climate models) and the role of tropical forests in the global cycles of greenhouse gases are urgently needed. Considering the increase in frequency and intensity of natural disturbance regimes and anthropogenic disturbances such as timber extraction, fire, extreme droughts, and the uncertainty on how climate change will affect tropical forests. In this Special Issue, we encourage and welcome studies that improve our understanding of the ecology of tropical forests to hydro-climatic extremes in both data-driven and dynamic vegetation models.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Land use and land use changes;
• Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide;
• Vulnerability of tree species along drought gradients;
• Wildfires;
• Windthrows;
• Hydro-climatic extremes;
• Remote sensing data applied to climatic models;
• Tropical forest meteorology.

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Henrique Pires de Mello Ribeiro
Dr. Daniel Magnabosco Marra
Guest Editors

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• climate correlation
• greenhouse gases cycle
• burned area
• wind disturbance
• land surface processes
• hydroclimatic extremes