Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

R. Feldpausch, Ted; L. Phillips, Oliver; Brienen, Roel; Gloor, Emanuel; Lloyd, Jon; López‐González, Gabriela; Monteagudo‐Mendoza, Abel; Malhi, Yadvinder; Alarcón, Alejandro; Álvarez Dávila, E.; Alvarez‐Loayza, P.; Andrade, Ana; E. O. C. Aragão, Luiz; Arroyo, Luzmila; A. Aymard C., G.; R. Baker, Timothy; Baraloto, Christopher; Barroso, Jorcely; Bonal, Damien; Castro, Wendeson; Chama, Víctor; Chave, Jérôme; F. Domingues, Tomas; Fauset, Sophie; Groot, Nikée; N. Honorio Coronado, Eurídice; G. W. Laurance, Susan; F. Laurance, W.; L. Lewis, Simon; Carlos Licona, Juan; Schwantes Marimon, Beatriz; Hur Marimon, Ben; Mendoza Bautista, Casimero; Neill, David; Almeida de Oliveira, Edmar; Santos, Cristiano; Pallqui Camacho, Nadir; Pardo‐Molina, G.; Prieto, Adriana; Alberto Quesada, Carlos; Ramírez, Fredy; Ramírez‐Angulo, Hirma; Réjou‐Méchain, Maxime; Rudas, A.; Saiz, Gustavo; P. Salomão, Rafael; E. Silva‐Espejo, Javier; Silveira, Marcos; ter Steege, Hans; Stropp, Juliana; Terborgh, John; Thomas‐Caesar, Raquel; van der Heijden, Geertje; Vásquez Martínez, R.; Vilanova, Emilio; Antoine Vos, Vincent

doi:10.1002/2015gb005133

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Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

Published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles • May 1, 2016

Authors:

Ted R. Feldpausch

Oliver L. Phillips

Roel Brienen

Abstract

Abstract The Amazon Basin has experienced more variable climate over the last decade, with a severe and widespread drought in 2005 causing large basin‐wide losses of biomass. A drought of similar climatological magnitude occurred again in 2010; however, there has been no basin‐wide ground‐based eval...

Subject

Environmental science

Biomass (ecology)

Sink (geography)

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