Amazon rainforests are rejuvenating their canopies by producing more photosynthetically efficient young leaves under climate change.

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Title: Amazon rainforests are rejuvenating their canopies by producing more photosynthetically efficient young leaves under climate change.
Authors: Yang X; Guangdong Province Data Center of Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems Carbon Cycle, School of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China., Tian J; Guangdong Province Data Center of Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems Carbon Cycle, School of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China., Ciais P; Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Université Paris-Saclay, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, if sur Yvette, France., Zhou L; Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, USA., Reich PB; Institute for Global Change Biology and School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.; Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA., Wu J; School of Biological Sciences and Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.; State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (CUHK), Hong Kong, China., Shang J; Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada., Chave J; Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversite et l'Environnement (CRBE), Universite de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France., Lamour J; Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversite et l'Environnement (CRBE), Universite de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France., Maréchaux I; AMAP, Université Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France., Fu YH; College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China., Chen JM; Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Liu J; Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Tao S; Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China., Xiao X; School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA., Xu X; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA., Su Y; State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China., Zhang H; School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China., Zhu Z; School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University, Shenzhen, China., Zhang Y; Institute of Carbon Neutrality, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China., Hao D; Atmospheric, Climate, & Earth Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA., Chen L; Key Laboratory of Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China., Liu Q; State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.; School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China., Lafortezza R; Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Bari 'A. Moro', Bari, Italy., Yan K; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Advanced Interdisciplinary Institute of Satellite Applications, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China., Li P; School of Geographic Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China., Li X; School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China., Meir P; School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK., Liu H; South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China., Bonal D; Université de Lorraine, INRAE, UMR Silva, AgroParisTech, Nancy, France., Nelson BW; Environmental Dynamics Department, National Institute for Amazon Research, Manaus, Brazil., Tang H; Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore., Wang J; Guangdong Province Data Center of Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems Carbon Cycle, School of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China., Yu K; Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China., Yuan W; School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China., Wang S; Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China., Chen X; Guangdong Province Data Center of Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems Carbon Cycle, School of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China. chenxzh73@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
Source: Nature plants [Nat Plants] 2026 Mar; Vol. 12 (3), pp. 520-531. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Mar 09.
Publication Type: Journal Article; Validation Study
Journal Info: Publisher: Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101651677 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2055-0278 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 20550278 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Nat Plants Subsets: MEDLINE
Database: MEDLINE Ultimate
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ISSN:2055-0278
DOI:10.1038/s41477-026-02240-9