Responses of aquatic macrophyte cover and productivity to flooding variability on the Amazon floodplain

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3379-3389

  Silva, Thiago S F ^a   Melack, John M ^b   Novo, Evlyn M L M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Climate change; Extreme hydrological events; Macrophyte growth; Net primary productivity; Tropical wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MACROPHYTE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WETLAND;

AMAZON BASIN;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CARBON CYCLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREME HYDROLOGICAL EVENTS; FLOODING; MACROPHYTE GROWTH; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RIVER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TROPICAL WETLANDS;

CARBON CYCLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME HYDROLOGICAL EVENTS; MACROPHYTE GROWTH; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; TROPICAL WETLANDS;

BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84885433530     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12308     Document Type: Article

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