MANILA, Philippines — Climate change adversely affects certain species of Philippine hardwood trees, such as yakal, apitong and tanguile, as the warming planet continues to make particular areas unsuitable for their growth, according to species distribution models created by scientists from the National University of Singapore.
In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers also discovered that the lowland forests suitable for these trees, also known as dipterocarps, fall largely outside the current delineations of the country’s protected areas network.
A critical tree family in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia, the dipterocarpacaea has over …
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