Widespread Amazon forest tree mortality from a single cross-basin squall line event

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Negrón Juárez, Robinson I ^a   Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^a,b,c   Guimaraes, Giuliano ^b   Zeng, Hongcheng ^d   Raupp, Carlos F M ^e   Marra, Daniel M ^b   Ribeiro, Gabriel H P M ^b   Saatchi, Sassan S ^f   Nelson, Bruce W ^b   Higuchi, Niro ^b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^e SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS;

AMAZON FORESTS; AMAZONIA; BIOMASS ACCUMULATION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CONVECTIVE STORMS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; FOREST PATCHES; FOREST PLOTS; MORTALITY RATE; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SCALING EXPONENT; SQUALL LINES; STORM INTENSITY; TREE MORTALITY; WARMING CLIMATE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS; BIOMONITORING; CARBON EMISSION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DEFORESTATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MORTALITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SQUALL LINE; STORM; TREE; VULNERABILITY;

CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; PRECIPITATION;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MANAUS;

EID: 77956078093     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043733     Document Type: Article

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