The response of tropical rainforests to drought—lessons from recent research and future prospects

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 27-44

  Bonal, Damien ^a   Burban, Benoit ^b   Stahl, Clément ^b,c   Wagner, Fabien ^d   Hérault, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE GUYANE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbon; Climate; Drought; Global change; Growth; Mortality; Soil; Tropical; Water

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; COMPLEXITY; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

AFRICA; AMAZONIA; ASIA;

EID: 84958825088     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-015-0522-5     Document Type: Article

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