The steady-state mosaic of disturbance and succession across an old-growth central Amazon forest landscape

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3949-3954

  Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^a,b,c   Negron Juarez, Robinson I ^b   Marra, Daniel Magnabosco ^c,d   Di Vittorio, Alan ^a   Tews, Joerg ^e   Roberts, Dar ^f   Ribeiro, Gabriel H P M ^c   Trumbore, Susan E ^d   Higuchi, Niro ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e Noreca Consulting Inc   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community composition; Gap dynamics; NEP NEE NBP

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; FIELD STUDY; FOREST; GAP DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE; MORTALITY; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECYCLING; REMOTE SENSING; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TIME PERCEPTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREE; TREND STUDY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIOMASS; BRAZIL; CARBON CYCLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIVERS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84874629593     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202894110     Document Type: Article

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