Dry-season greening of Amazon forests

Nature

Volumn 531, Issue 7594, 2016, Pages E4-E5

  Saleska, Scott R ^a   Wu, Jin ^a   Guan, Kaiyu ^b   Araujo, Alessandro C ^c   Huete, Alfredo ^d   Nobre, Antonio D ^e   Restrepo Coupe, Natalia ^d  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY COVARIANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOMETRY; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRY SEASON; FOREST; GEOMETRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUNLIGHT; UPREGULATION; DROUGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT LEAF; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AMAZONIA;

DROUGHTS; PIGMENTATION; PLANT LEAVES; SEASONS; SUNLIGHT; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84973409744     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16457     Document Type: Article

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