Atmospheric versus vegetation controls of Amazonian tropical rain forest evapotranspiration: Are the wet and seasonally dry rain forests any different?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Costa, Marcos H ^a   Biajoli, Márcia C ^a   Sanches, Luciana ^b   Malhado, Ana C M ^a   Hutyra, Lucy R ^c   Da Rocha, Humberto R ^d   Aguiar, Renata G ^e   De Araújo, Alessandro C ^f  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e Department of Environmental Engineering   (Brazil)

^f Amazonas State University   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND USE; RAINFOREST; SEASONALITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 78649375507     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JG001179     Document Type: Article

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