Seasonal changes in leaf area of Amazon forests from leaf flushing and abscission

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Samanta, Arindam ^a,b   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a   Xu, Liang ^a   Dickinson, Robert E ^c   Fu, Rong ^c   Costa, Marcos H ^d   Saatchi, Sassan S ^e   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^f   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISSION; ALBEDO; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LEAF AREA; LITTERFALL; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84863116636     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001818     Document Type: Article

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