Patterns of energy exchange for tropical ecosystems across a climate gradient in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 202, Issue , 2015, Pages 112-124

  Biudes, Marcelo Sacardi ^a   Vourlitis, George Louis ^b   Machado, Nadja Gomes ^a,c   de Arruda, Paulo Henrique Zanella ^a   Neves, Geraldo Aparecido Rodrigues ^a   de Almeida Lobo, Francisco ^a   Neale, Christopher Michael Usher ^d   de Souza Nogueira, José ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO   (Brazil)

^d Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon Basin; Climate change; Deforestation; Ecosystem function; Evapotranspiration; Sensible heat flux

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CERRADO; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ENERGY FLUX; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AMAZON BASIN; BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO;

VOCHYSIA DIVERGENS;

EID: 84920287132     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.12.008     Document Type: Article

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