Ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling in intact and annually burnt forest at the dry southern limit of the Amazon rainforest (Mato Grosso, Brazil)

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 25-40

  Rocha, Wanderley ^a,b   Metcalfe, Daniel B ^c   Doughty, Chris E ^d   Brando, Paulo ^a,b   Silvério, Divino ^a   Halladay, Kate ^d   Nepstad, Daniel C ^a   Balch, Jennifer K ^e   Malhi, Yadvinder ^d  

^a Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

allocation; carbon cycling; CUE; fire experiment; GPP; NPP; Tanguro; tropical seasonally dry rainforest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893317278     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.798368     Document Type: Article

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