Rainfall exclusion in an eastern Amazonian forest alters soil water movement and depth of water uptake

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 443-455

  Romero Saltos, Hugo ^a   Sternberg, Leonel Da S L ^a   Moreira, Marcelo Z ^b   Nepstad, Daniel C ^c  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coussarea racemosa; Deuterium; Drought; Eastern Amazonia; El Ni o; Eschweilera pedicellata; Global climate change; Sclerolobium chrysophyllum

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; SOIL WATER; TREE; WATER UPTAKE;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHRYSOPHYLLUM; COUSSAREA; COUSSAREA RACEMOSA; ESCHWEILERA; ESCHWEILERA PEDICELLATA; SCLEROLOBIUM; SCLEROLOBIUM CHRYSOPHYLLUM;

EID: 14644394973     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.92.3.443     Document Type: Article

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