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Tropical forests cover less than 7% of Earth's surface, but...

...tropical forests cycle more CO₂, water, and energy than ANY other biome.

That cycling plays a major role in regulating Earth's climate.

NGEE-Tropics is advancing our understanding of tropical forest carbon cycling, and associated water and energy fluxes.

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The future of tropical forests matter to future climate.
NGEE-Tropics is advancing model predictions of tropical forest carbon cycle responses to a changing climate over the 21st Century.

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Below versus above Ground Plant Sources of Abscisic Acid

Below versus above Ground Plant Sources of Abscisic Acid (ABA) at the Heart of Tropical Forest Response to Warming Abscisic

Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees

Climate Sensitive Size-dependent Survival in Tropical Trees Survival of trees in the tropics can be grouped into four types and

Figure for E3SM release 2018

New DOE Earth System Model Released

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project, supported by the Office of Science in the Biological

Warm ENSO phase drives coordination between leaf and fruit phenology

Resource acquisition and reproductive strategies of tropical forest in response to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation The Science It has been