🌍 The study highlights the importance of understanding plant metabolism and carbon balance to predict which species can persist as savannas become more wooded. (8/8)
👉 https://doi.org/q58v
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Carbon starvation as a mechanistic explanation for the gradual decline of savanna ground-layer species under tree encroachment
AbstractBackground. Tropical savannas worldwide have been experiencing woody encroachment, i.e., the rapid increase in density and biomass of woody plants
🌱 Check the newly published article ‘Carbon starvation as a mechanistic explanation for the gradual decline of savanna ground-layer species under tree encroachment’ in @AnnBot by Rossatto & Scalon 🧵(1/8)
👉 https://doi.org/q58v
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Annals of Botany