December 1, 2025Global Change BiologyOpen Access

Compositional Acclimation Can Lessen Tropical Forest Change in Response to Increasing Lightning Frequency: Insights From Simulation Modeling

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Simulation modeling reveals that tropical forest acclimates to rising lightning frequency, altering biomass and species composition.

Aboveground biomass decreased with increased lightning frequency, highlighting a key impact on forest health.
The mechanistic forest dynamics model successfully simulated the carbon flux and biomass dynamics in tropical forests.
Changes in species composition enhanced forest resilience to lightning, mitigating adverse biomass impacts.
Findings support the need for integrating lightning effects into global ecosystem models for accurate forest response simulations.

Medvigy et al. (2025) studied this question.

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