1/20 #TropiCon20 THANKS for the invitation! I fell in love with the tropical dry forest biome about 20 years ago. They support unique biodiversity, livelihoods, and sequester C, yet they face many threats from climate and land-use change.
2/20 #TropiCon20 #tropicaldryforests span enormous climatic, edaphic, and composition gradients. Understanding what unites them and what differentiates them is important for conservation and forecasting responses to climate change.
3/20 #TropiCon20 Our goal is to understand how climate, soils, and biogeography affect physiology and biogeochemistry of #tropicaldryforests to better represent them in models and understand their responses to global changes
4/20 #TropiCon20 What do we need to know about #tropicaldryforests to represent the demography and ecology of plant functional types? @XiangtaoX #davidmedvigy_not_on_twitter