Amazon drought and its implications for forest flammability and tree growth: A basin-wide analysis

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 704-717

  Nepstad, Daniel ^a,b   Lefebvre, Paul ^a   Da Silva, Urbano Lopes ^b   Tomasella, Javier ^c   Schlesinger, Peter ^a   Solórzano, Luiz ^a   Moutinho, Paulo ^b   Ray, David ^a   Benito, José Guerreira ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c Ctro Previsao Tempo/Estudos Climat   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Fire; Hydrology; NPP; Rainforest; Soil moisture; Tropical; Water balance

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOREST FIRE; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; SOIL WATER;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 2642548307     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00772.x     Document Type: Article

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