Seasonal trends of Amazonian rainforest phenology, net primary productivity, and carbon allocation

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 700-715

  Girardin, Cécile A J ^a   Malhi, Yadvinder ^a   Doughty, Christopher E ^a   Metcalfe, Daniel B ^b   Meir, Patrick ^c,d   del Aguila Pasquel, Jhon ^e,f   Araujo Murakami, Alejandro ^g   da Costa, Antonio C L ^h   Silva Espejo, Javier E ⁱ   Farfán Amézquita, Filio ⁱ   Rowland, Lucy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA   (Peru)

^f INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES DE LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA   (Peru)

^g Centro de Investigación Económica del Colegio de Economista   (Bolivia)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

Author keywords

carbon allocation; ecosystem function; net primary productivity; phenology; seasonality; tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; IRRADIANCE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFOREST; SEASONALITY; SOLAR RADIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84969960027     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GB005270     Document Type: Article

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