Variability of carbon and water fluxes following climate extremes over a tropical forest in southwestern amazonia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Zeri, Marcelo ^a   Sá, Leonardo D A ^a   Manzi, Antônio O ^b   Araú, Alessandro C ^c   Aguiar, Renata G ^d   Von Randow, Celso ^a   Sampaio, Gilvan ^a   Cardoso, Fernando L ^d   Nobre, Carlos A ^e  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE RONDÔNIA   (Brazil)

^e Assessoria Programas Especiais/ASSPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; RAIN; WATER; CARBON DIOXIDE; SOIL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SOURCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC NAMES; PLANT WATER USE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHWESTERN AMAZONIA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER CYCLE; WATER VAPOR; BRAZIL; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; FOREST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER; SEASON; SOIL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ATMOSPHERE; BRAZIL; CALIBRATION; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; FORESTS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEASONS; SOIL; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER;

EID: 84895861886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088130     Document Type: Article

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