Amazonian tree mortality during the 1997 El Nino drought

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1538-1542

  Williamson, G Bruce ^a,b   Laurance, William F ^b   Oliveira, Alexandre A ^c   Delamônica, Patricia ^b   Gascon, Claude ^b   Lovejoy, Thomas E ^d   Pohl, Luciano ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c PAULISTA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT STRESS; EL NINO; EXTREME EVENT; MORTALITY; RAINFOREST; TREE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033781150     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.99298.x     Document Type: Article

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