Amazonian rain forests and drought: Response and vulnerability

New Phytologist

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 553-557

  Meir, Patrick ^a   Woodward, F Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Drought; Fire; Land use; Mortality; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AUTOTROPHY; BRAZIL; DROUGHT; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DROUGHTS; RAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77955138016     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03390.x     Document Type: Editorial

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