Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4820-4823

  Myneni, Ranga B ^a   Yang, Wenze ^a,m   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^b   Huete, Alfredo R ^c   Dickinson, Robert E ^d   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a   Didan, Kamel ^c   Fu, Rong ^d   Negrón Juárez, Robinson I ^d   Saatchi, Sasan S ^e   Hashimoto, Hirofumi ^f   Ichii, Kazuhito ^g   Shabanov, Nikolay V ^a   Tan, Bin ^a,n   Ratana, Piyachat ^c   Privette, Jeffrey L ^h,o   Morisette, Jeffrey T ^h   Vermote, Eric F ^h,i   Roy, David P ^j   Wolfe, Robert E ^h   Friedl, Mark A ^a   Running, Steven W ^k   Votava, Petr ^f   El Saleous, Nazmi ^h   Devadiga, Sadashiva ^h   Su, Yin ^a   Salomonson, Vincent V ^l   more..

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^j SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

ⁿ Earth Resources Technology Inc   (United States)

^o NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Tropical forests phenology; Vegetation climate interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LEAF STRUCTURE; LEAF SURFACE; NUTRIENT CYCLE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VEGETATION; BRAZIL; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; ORGAN SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEASON; SUNLIGHT; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME; TREE;

RAIN;

BRAZIL; GEOGRAPHY; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT LEAVES; RAIN; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SEASONS; SUNLIGHT; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 34247620756     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611338104     Document Type: Article

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