Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland neotropical forest
Abstract
Summary The mortality rates of large trees are critical to determining carbon stocks in tropical forests, but the mechanisms of tropical tree mortality remain poorly understood. Lightning strikes thousands of tropical trees every day, but is commonly assumed to be a minor agent of tree mortality in most tropical forests. We use the first systematic quantification of lightning‐caused mortality to show that lightning is a major cause of death for...
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Title
Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland neotropical forest
Published Date
Nov 18, 2019
Journal
Volume
225
Issue
5
Pages
1936 - 1944
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