Aboveground net primary productivity in tropical forest regrowth increases following wetter dry-seasons

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 276, Issue , 2012, Pages 82-87

  Vasconcelos, Steel Silva ^a   Zarin, Daniel Jacob ^a   Araújo, Maristela Machado ^b   Miranda, Izildinha de Souza ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass increment; Amazon; Dry season irrigation; Litterfall; Secondary forest

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ABOVEGROUND NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENTS; AMAZON; AMAZONIA; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON; DRY SEASONS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAG EFFECTS; LITTERFALLS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SECONDARY FORESTS; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOMASS; DROUGHT; IRRIGATION; TROPICS;

FORESTRY;

ABANDONED LAND; ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LITTERFALL; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGROWTH; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SECONDARY FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84861452623     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.03.034     Document Type: Article

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