Sunlight mediated seasonality in canopy structure and photosynthetic activity of Amazonian rainforests

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Bi, Jian ^a   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a   Choi, Sungho ^a   Park, Taejin ^a   Barichivich, Jonathan ^b   Ciais, Philippe ^c   Fu, Rong ^d   Ganguly, Sangram ^e   Hall, Forrest ^f   Hilker, Thomas ^g   Huete, Alfredo ^h   Jones, Matthew ⁱ   Kimball, John ⁱ   Lyapustin, Alexei I ^f   Mõttus, Matti ^j   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^e   Piao, Shilong ^k,l   Poulter, Benjamin ^m   Saleska, Scott R ⁿ   Saatchi, Sassan S ^o,p   Xu, Liang ^o   Zhou, Liming ^q   Myneni, Ranga B ^a   more..

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c DIF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^k PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^l INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^m MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ University of Arizona   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^q STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Amazonian rainforests; MISR; MODIS; remote sensing; seasonality

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TRACKING (POSITION);

AMAZONIAN RAINFOREST; MISR; MODIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDRATION; MODIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAINFOREST; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84937509345     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064014     Document Type: Article

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