Seasonal and interannual litter dynamics of a tropical semideciduous forest of the southern Amazon Basin, Brazil

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Sanches, Luciana ^a   Valentini, Carla Maria Abido ^b   Pinto Júnior, Osvaldo Borges ^a   Nogueira, José de Souza ^a   Vourlitis, George Louis ^c   Biudes, Marcelo Sacardi ^a   da Silva, Carlos José ^a   Bambi, Paulino ^a   Lobo, Francisco de Almeida ^a,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^b Department of Computer Science   (Brazil)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST FLOOR; LITTER; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZON BASIN; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 61749089603     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JG000593     Document Type: Article

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