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%@issn 2197-0025
%A Santos, Mauro G.,
%A Oliveira, Marciel T.,
%A Figueiredo, Karla V.,
%A Falcao, Hiram M.,
%A Arruda, Emilia C. P.,
%A Almeida-Cortez, Jarcilene,
%A Sampaio, Everardo V. S. B.,
%A Ometto, Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud,
%A Menezes, Romulo S. C.,
%A Oliveira, Antonio F. M.,
%A Pompelli, Marcelo F.,
%A Antonino, Antonio C. D.,
%@secondarytype PRE PN
%B Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
%D 2014
%F isi 2014-11 SantosOFFAASOMOPA:2014:CaItTo
%K Caatinga, Drought tolerance, Gas exchange, Global warming, Plant ecophysiology, Semiarid recovery.
%N 1
%P 83-99
%T Caatinga, the Brazilian dry tropical forest: can it tolerate climate changes?
%V 26
%X Our review focuses on the projections of climate change in the Brazilian semiarid region, the Caatinga, based on recent publications about global climate change and biology. We found several vulnerable points in the initial estimates, the main one being that the data were collected and analyzed without a multidisciplinary knowledge. This review discusses several studies that show the current knowledge in many semiarid regions around the world. Some of these studies argue for the increase in vegetation greenness responses even under severe and prolonged drought, based on the high resilience the Caatinga native species show under severe drought conditions over the years. Additionally, we include in this review recent data produced by our group on key ecophysiological variables under drought conditions. We also show successful examples of deforested areas recovery in the semiarid region of the Central America. It is critical that the recovery of semiarid areas is coupled with the implementation of socio-environmental policies, engaging the local population and providing subsidies for life wealth improvement. These are key aspects for a long-term recovery and conservation of the Brazilian dry tropical forest.
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%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Ciencias Biol, Dept Bot, Recife, PE, Brazil.
%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Ciencias Biol, Dept Bot, Recife, PE, Brazil.
%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Ciencias Biol, Dept Bot, Recife, PE, Brazil.
%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Ciencias Biol, Dept Bot, Recife, PE, Brazil.
%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Ciencias Biol, Dept Bot, Recife, PE, Brazil.
%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Ciencias Biol, Dept Bot, Recife, PE, Brazil.
%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Tecnol, Dept Energia Nucl, Recife, PE, Brazil.
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Tecnol, Dept Energia Nucl, Recife, PE, Brazil.
%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Ciencias Biol, Dept Bot, Recife, PE, Brazil.
%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Ciencias Biol, Dept Bot, Recife, PE, Brazil.
%@affiliation Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Tecnol, Dept Energia Nucl, Recife, PE, Brazil.
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%@doi 10.1007/s40626-014-0008-0
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