A precarious future for Amazonia

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 251-252

  Laurance, William F ^a   Powell, George ^b   Hansen, Lara ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b Macroecon Sustainable Devmt Prog   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM; EL NINO; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PANAMA; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VEGETATION;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0036603910     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02484-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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7. Precipitation recycling in the Amazon Basin
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11. Positive feedbacks in the fire dynamics of closed canopy tropical forests
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13. Increased El Niño frequency in a climate model forced by future greenhouse warming
14. Positive feedbacks among forest fragmentation, drought, and climate change in the Amazon