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SUMMARY:Can tropical forests keep up with climate change? - Richard T Corl
 ett (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden\, Chinese Academy of Sciences
 \, Yunnan\, China)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201002T160000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201002T173000
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 s.\n\nThe critical role of tropical forests in protecting carbon and biodi
 versity makes it important that we can understand and predict their respon
 ses to climate change. Projections based on correlations between present-d
 ay vegetation and climate show the boundaries of tropical vegetation types
  shifting 100s of kilometres by the end of the century\, reflecting distan
 ces to the closest future climate analogues. Clearly\, however\, the whole
 sale movements of plant species implied by these projections are not going
  to happen\, at least in the next few decades.  How and how quickly can tr
 opical forests respond to climate change and rising CO2 levels? \n\nRichar
 d Corlett did his first degree\, in Botany\, at the University of Cambridg
 e and PhD in Plant Ecology at the Australian National University\, with fi
 eldwork in Papua New Guinea. He has lived and worked in the Asian tropics 
 ever since: at Chiang Mai University (1980-82)\, the National University o
 f Singapore (1982-87 and 2008-2012)\, and the University of Hong Kong (198
 8-2008)\, then\, since 2012\, at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gard
 en\, Chinese Academy of Sciences\, in southwest Yunnan. His research focus
 es on ecology and conservation in tropical East Asia and he was a lead aut
 hor for the Asia chapter in the 2014 AR5 WG2 IPCC report. In addition to m
 any scientific papers\, he has written several books\, including The Ecolo
 gy of Tropical East Asia (Oxford University Press\, 3rd edition\, 2019).\n
 Speakers:\nRichard T Corlett (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden\, Ch
 inese Academy of Sciences\, Yunnan\, China)
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