Giving Compass' Take:

· According to new research in the journal Global Change Biology, the rapid expansion of climate change has left the Amazon Rainforest in the dust, slowly adapting to changes. 

· How can funders work to slow the damage to the Amazon Rainforest? 

· Learn more about the Amazon Rainforest and the environment. 

Frequent droughts are changing the assortment of trees in Amazon basin ecosystems, with water-loving varieties slowly being replaced by more drought-resistant species. The forests are not adapting fast enough, however, and they're failing to keep pace with the rate with which the basin's climate is changing, according to a new study published in the journal Global Change Biology.

Using data collected by a long-term international collaboration known as RAINFOR, Adriane Esquivel Muelbert, a tropical forest ecologist at the University of Leeds in Britain, and her team found that, in the most drought-prone Amazon regions, water-loving plants are being replaced by those adapted to extreme dry weather.

RAINFOR is a network of international and local researchers from more than 30 countries who've maintained continuous monitoring of all trees in more than 300 2.5-acre plots across the Amazon basin. Using data from 106 of the longest-monitored plots, researchers found that mortality has increased over the 30-year period among moisture loving tree genera such as Mezilaurus and Inga.

Read the full article about the destruction of climate change by Claire Asher at Pacific Standard.