A new study has noted that in years when the seasonal dry season is drier and warmer than normal, tropical trees are declining.
The study was presented in Nature Geoscience journal.
The results were a collaborative effort involving Valerie Trouet, a professor in the University of Arizona Tree Ring Research Laboratory, and Flurin Babst, assistant professor of natural resources and environment at the University of Arizona.
But in recent decades, the formation of growth rings has been documented in hundreds of tropical species that grow susceptible to drought and typically have at least one or two months of slightly reduced rainfall annually.
