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IF 4.6 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Functional Ecology Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.14374

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Abstract

The steamy Boiling River in the lowland Amazon forest of central Peru (Credit: Alyssa T. Kullberg)

The authors behind this month's cover photo (https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14657) measured the photosynthetic thermal tolerances of six common woody Amazonian species at the beginning and at the end of the dry season to determine the species' abilities to acclimate to intra-annual changes to climate. They also used the natural thermal gradient present to test the acclimation of individual plants to maximum air temperatures not currently observed elsewhere in the moist lowland Amazon. Their results show that some woody species from the moist Amazon can acclimate their thermal tolerances over short time-scales, although acclimation is likely insufficient to overcome thermal stress during extreme temperature events. Some species may therefore be more sensitive to heatwaves than others, which could impact survival and composition of tropical lowland forests into the future.

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秘鲁中部亚马逊低地森林中蒸腾的沸腾河（图片来源：Alyssa T. Kullberg）本月封面照片（https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14657）的作者在旱季开始和结束时测量了亚马逊六种常见木本植物的光合热耐受性，以确定这些物种适应年内气候变化的能力。他们还利用现有的自然热梯度测试了个别植物对目前在亚马逊湿润低地其他地方未观察到的最高气温的适应能力。他们的研究结果表明，亚马逊河流域潮湿地区的一些木本物种可以在短时间内适应热耐受性，但适应性可能不足以克服极端温度事件中的热应力。因此，一些物种可能比其他物种对热浪更敏感，这可能会影响热带低地森林未来的生存和组成。

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来源期刊

Functional Ecology 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

1.90%

发文量

243

审稿时长

4 months

期刊介绍： Functional Ecology publishes high-impact papers that enable a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. Because of the multifaceted nature of this challenge, papers can be based on a wide range of approaches. Thus, manuscripts may vary from physiological, genetics, life-history, and behavioural perspectives for organismal studies to community and biogeochemical studies when the goal is to understand ecosystem and larger scale ecological phenomena. We believe that the diverse nature of our journal is a strength, not a weakness, and we are open-minded about the variety of data, research approaches and types of studies that we publish. Certain key areas will continue to be emphasized: studies that integrate genomics with ecology, studies that examine how key aspects of physiology (e.g., stress) impact the ecology of animals and plants, or vice versa, and how evolution shapes interactions among function and ecological traits. Ecology has increasingly moved towards the realization that organismal traits and activities are vital for understanding community dynamics and ecosystem processes, particularly in response to the rapid global changes occurring in earth’s environment, and Functional Ecology aims to publish such integrative papers.