Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

Nature

Volumn 519, Issue 7541, 2015, Pages 78-82

  Doughty, Christopher E ^a   Metcalfe, D B ^b   Girardin, C A J ^a   Amézquita, F Farfán ^c   Cabrera, D Galiano ^c   Huasco, W Huaraca ^c   Silva Espejo, J E ^c   Araujo Murakami, A ^d   Da Costa, M C ^e   Rocha, W ^f   Feldpausch, T R ^g   Mendoza, A L M ^c   Da Costa, A C L ^e   Meir, P ^h,i   Phillips, O L ^j   Malhi, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^d Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; RAIN;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DROUGHT; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FOREST DYNAMICS; GLOBAL CHANGE; MORTALITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BREATHING; CANOPY; CARBON CYCLING; CARBON DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FOREST; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HETEROTROPHY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PRIMARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS); PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; BRAZIL; CELL RESPIRATION; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AMAZONIA;

BRAZIL; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL RESPIRATION; DROUGHTS; FORESTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84924353432     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14213     Document Type: Article

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