Nature research paper: Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature
go.nature.com/4ua5R82
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Primary forests store ~72 % more carbon than managed forests, a lot more than previously thought, especially in the soil.
These results highlight the important role of these ecosystems in climate change mitigation, as they face increasingly rapid transformations into managed secondary forests.
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A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limited by fundamental properties of protein architecture.