Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests

B. Myneni, Ranga; Yang, Wenze; Nemani, Ramakrishna; Huete, Alfredo; E. Dickinson, Robert; Knyazikhin, Yuri; Didan, Kamel; Fu, Rong; I. Negrón Juárez, R.; S. Saatchi, S.; Hashimoto, Hirofumi; Ichii, Kazuhito; V. Shabanov, Nikolay; Tan, Bin; Ratana, P.; L. Privette, J.; T. Morisette, Jeffrey; Vermote, Éric; P. Roy, David; E. Wolfe, Robert; A. Friedl, M.; W. Running, Steven; Votava, P.; Saleous, Nazmi; Devadiga, Sadashiva; Su, Yin; V. Salomonson, V.

doi:10.1073/pnas.0611338104

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Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Mar 13, 2007

Authors:

Ranga B. Myneni

Wenze Yang

Ramakrishna Nemani

Abstract

Despite early speculation to the contrary, all tropical forests studied to date display seasonal variations in the presence of new leaves, flowers, and fruits. Past studies were focused on the timing of phenological events and their cues but not on the accompanying changes in leaf area that regulate...

Subject

Rainforest

Dry season

Plant litter

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