Expansion of gallery forests into central Brazilian savannas

Global Change Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2108-2118

  Silva, Lucas C R ^a,b   Sternberg, Leonel ^c   Haridasan, Mundayatan ^b   Hoffmann, William A ^d   Miralles Wilhelm, Fernando ^e   Franco, Augusto C ^b  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope ratios; Carbon sink; Carbon stocks; Climate change; Gallery forest; Leaf area index; Nutrients; Savanna; Tropical ecosystems; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CERRADO; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEAF AREA INDEX; ORGANIC CARBON; SAVANNA; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; TROPICAL FOREST;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

POACEAE;

EID: 48849099100     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01637.x     Document Type: Article

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