Ecosystem respiration and net primary productivity after 8-10 years of experimental through-fall reduction in an eastern Amazon forest

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 7-24

  da Costa, Antonio C L ^a   Metcalfe, Daniel B ^b   Doughty, Chris E ^c   de Oliveira, Alexandre A R ^a   Neto, Guilherme F C ^a   da Costa, Mauricio C ^a   Silva Junior, João de Athaydes ^a   Aragão, Luiz E O C ^d   Almeida, Samuel ^e   Galbraith, David R ^c,f   Rowland, Lucy M ^g   Meir, Patrick ^g,h   Malhi, Yadvinder ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

biomass allocation; carbon cycling; Caxiuan National Forest Reserve; climate change; CUE; drought; GPP; NPP; PCE; tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893214546     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.798366     Document Type: Article

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