Effects of large-scale Amazon forest degradation on climate and air quality through fluxes of carbon dioxide, water, energy, mineral dust and isoprene

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1498, 2008, Pages 1873-1880

  Betts, Richard ^a   Sanderson, Michael ^a   Woodward, Stephanie ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon dieback; Biogeochemical cycles; Carbon cycle; Climate change; Deforestation; Feedbacks

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DUST; ENERGY FLUX; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ISOPRENE; MITIGATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER FLOW;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 41649113909     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.0027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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