Zuidema, Pieter AGroenendijk, PeterRahman, MizanurTrouet, ValerieAbiyu, AbrhamAcuña Soto, RodolfoAdenesky Filho, EduardoAlfaro Sánchez, RaquelAnholetto Jr, Claudio RobertoVieira Aragão, José RobertoAssis Pereira , GabrielAstdillo Sánchez, Claudia CBarbosa , Ana CarolinaBattipaglia , GiovannaBeeckman, HansBotosso , Paulo CesarBourland , NilsBräuning , AchimBrienen Roel, RoelBrookhouse , MatthewBuajan , SupapornBuckley , Brandan MCamarero , J JulioCarrillo Parra , ArtemioCeccantini, GregórioCenteno Erguera , Librado RCerano Paredes, JuliánCervantes Martínez , RosalindaChanthorn, WirongChen, Ya JunLadvocat Cintra , Bruno BarçanteCornejo Oviedo , Eladio HeribertoCortés Cortés , OtonielMatos Costa , ClayaneCouralet , CamilleCrispín De La Cruz , Doris BiancaD'arrigo , RosanneDavid , Diego ADe Ridder , MaaikeDel Valle , Jorge IgnacioDobner Jr , MárioDoucet , Jean LouisDünisch , OliverEnquist , Brian JEsemann Quadros , KarinEsquivel Arriaga , GerardoFan , Ze XinFayolle , AdelineBergamo Fenilli , Tatiele AneteFerrero , M EugeniaFichtler , EstherFinnegan , Patrick MFontana , ClaudiaFrancisco , Kainana SFu , Pei LiGalvão , FranklinGebrekirstos , AsterJorge A Giraldo , Jorge A GiraldoGloor , EmanuelGodoy Veiga , MilenaGranato Souza , DanielaGuerra , AnthonyHaneca , KristofLogan Harley , GrantHeinrich, IngoHelle , GerhardHornink , BrunaHubau , WannesInga , JanetIslam , MahmudaJiang , Yu MeiKaib , MarkKhamisi , Zakia HassanKoprowski Marcin, MarcinLayme Huamán , Eva TrinidadLeffler , A JoshuaLigot , GauthierLisi , Claudio SergioLoader , Neil JDe Almeida Lobo , FranciscoMaselli Locosselli Giuliano, GiulianoLonghi Santos , TomazLopez , LidioLópez Hernández , María IPenetra Cerveira Lousada , José LuísManzanedo , Rubén DMarcon , Amanda KMaxwell , Justin TMendoza Villa , Omar NNunes Menezes, Itallo RomanyMokria , MulugetaRibeiro Montóia , ValdinezMoors , EddyMoreno , MiyerMuñiz Castro , Miguel AngelNabais , CristinaNathalang , AnuttaraNgoma , JustineDe Carvalho Nogueira Jr , FranciscoMorales Oliveira , JulianoMorais Olmedo , GabrielaOrtega Rodriguez , Daigard RicardoRodríguez Ortíz , Carmen EugeniaAlves Pagotto , MarianaPanthi , ShankarParedes Villanueva , KathelynPérez de Lis , GonzaloPonce Calderón , Laura PatriciaPortal Cahuana , Leif ArmandoPucha Cofrep , Darwin AlexanderPumijumnong , NathsudaQuadri , PauloRamírez , Jorge AndrésRequena Rojas , Edilson JimmyReyes Flores , Judithde Souza Ribeiro , AdautoRobertson , IainRoig , Fidel AlejandroRoquette , José GuilhermeRubio Camacho , Ernesto AlonsoSánchez Salguero , RaúlSass Klaassen , UteSchöngart , JochenCallegari Scipioni , MarceloSheppard , Paul RSilva , Lucas C RSlotta , FranziskaSoria Díaz , LeroySousa , Luciana K V SSpeer , JamesTherrell , Matthew DTicse Otarola , GinetteTomazello Filho , MarioTorbenson , Max C ATor Ngern , PantanaTouchan , RamziVan den Bulcke , JanVázquez Selem , LorenzoVelázquez Pérez , Adín HVenegas González , AlejandroVillalba , RicardoVillanueva Diaz , JoseVlam , MartVourlitis , GeorgeWehenkel , ChristianWils , TommyZavaleta , Erika SAsfaw Zewdu , EshetuYong Jiang , ZhangZhou , Zhe KunBabst , Flurin2025-08-192025-08-192025-07-31Zuidema, P. A., Groenendijk, P., Rahman, M., Trouet, V., Abiyu, A., Acuña-Soto, R., Adenesky-Filho, E., Alfaro-Sánchez, R., Anholetto, C. R., Jr, Aragão, J. R. V., Assis-Pereira, G., Astudillo-Sánchez, C. C., Barbosa, A. C., Battipaglia, G., Beeckman, H., Botosso, P. C., Bourland, N., Bräuning, A., Brienen, R., Brookhouse, M., … Babst, F. (2025). Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 389(6759), 532–538. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq66071095-9203http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12955/2821Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evaluate this risk, we assessed drought impacts in 483 tree-ring chronologies from across the tropics and found an overall modest stem growth decline (2.5% with a 95% confidence interval of 2.2 to 2.7%) during the 10% driest years since 1930. Stem growth declines exceeded 10% in 25% of cases and were larger at hotter and drier sites and for gymnosperms compared with angiosperms. Growth declines generally did not outlast drought years and were partially mitigated by growth stimulation in wet years. Thus, pantropical forest carbon sequestration through stem growth has hitherto shown drought resilience that may, however, diminish under future climate change.application/pdfenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessclimate changedroughttree ringspantropical forestsforest resiliencecambio climáticosequíaanillos de los árbolesbosques pantropicalesresiliencia forestalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#4.01.02https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq6607bosques tropical; tropical forests