Mortality of large trees and lianas following experimental drought in an amazon forest

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2259-2269

  Nepstad, Daniel C ^a,b   Tohver, Ingrid Marisa ^b   David, Ray ^a   Moutinho, Paulo ^a,b   Cardinot, Georgina ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon rain forest; Biomass; Brazil; Carbon flux; Climate change; Dead biomass; Drought; El Ni o; ENSO; Forest mortality; Lianas; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; OVERSTORY; SIZE EFFECT; SOIL WATER; THROUGHFALL; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY; VINE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; RAIN;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FORESTRY; NATURAL DISASTERS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 35548955108     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1046.1     Document Type: Article

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