Implications of climate change for forest structure and carbon storage in the tropical zones of Latin America and the Caribbean

"This study had two principal objectives. The first main objective was to model how and where, according to climate change scenarios, the climate zones of the tropical areas of Latin America and the Caribbean will change. The study's second main objective was to evaluate how, according to the modeled climate shifts, the carbon stocks in the region's forests can be expected to change. The assessment of the forest carbon stock changes included evaluation of both above-ground and below-ground stores of carbon"--P.7.