Widespread decline in greenness of Amazonian vegetation due to the 2010 drought

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Xu, Liang ^a   Samanta, Arindam ^a,b   Costa, Marcos H ^c   Ganguly, Sangram ^d   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^d   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; VEGETATION; FORESTRY;

AMAZON REGION; AMAZONIA; CARBON FIXATION; DRY SEASONS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY; RIVER LEVELS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; VEGETATION GREENNESS; AMAZON; RAIN FORESTS;

DROUGHT;

CARBON CYCLE; DROUGHT; DRY SEASON; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 79953899854     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046824     Document Type: Article

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