Environmental and ecological drivers of drought deciduousness across the Neotropics

Marcos Longo1, Rosie Fisher2, Gregory Lemieux3, Ryan Knox3, Charlie Koven4, Chonggang Xu5, Jeffrey Q Chambers6,7, Luciana F Alves8, Antonio Antonino9, Bergson Guedes Bezerra10, Barbara Bomfim6, Damien Bonal11, Paulo M Brando12, Benoit Burban13, Geraldine Derroire14, Maria del Rosario Uribe Diosa15, Leandro Maracahipes16, Guilherme G Mazzochini17, Rafael S Oliveira18, Pedro Rodrigues Mutti10, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe19, Scott R Saleska19, Cibele de Cassia Silva20, Cláudio Moises Santos e Silva Dr.21, Eduardo de Souza22, Jose Raliuson Silva22 and Lara M Kueppers23,24, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, (10)UFRN Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Natal, Brazil, (11)Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, UMR Silva, Nancy, France, (12)Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States, (13)INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France, (14)CIRAD, UMR EcoFoG, Agroparistech, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France, (15)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (16)Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Botânica. AC Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil, (17)UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, (18)University of Campinas, Department of Plant Biology, Campinas, Brazil, (19)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (20)UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Department of Plant Biology, Campinas, Brazil, (21)Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal/RN, Brazil, Natal, Brazil, (22)UFRPE - Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Serra Talhada, Brazil, (23)University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, United States, (24)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, United States