Do dynamic global vegetation models capture the seasonality of carbon fluxes in the Amazon basin? A data-model intercomparison

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 191-208

  Restrepo Coupe, Natalia ^a,b   Levine, Naomi M ^c,d   Christoffersen, Bradley O ^b,e,f   Albert, Loren P ^b   Wu, Jin ^b,g   Costa, Marcos H ^h   Galbraith, David ⁱ   Imbuzeiro, Hewlley ^h   Martins, Giordane ^j   da Araujo, Alessandro C ^j,k   Malhi, Yadvinder S ^l   Zeng, Xubin ^f   Moorcroft, Paul ^d   Saleska, Scott R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^j INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^k EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Amazonia; carbon dynamics; dynamic global vegetation models; ecosystem climate interactions; eddy covariance; seasonality; tropical forests phenology

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; EDDY COVARIANCE; PHENOLOGY; SEASONALITY; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AMAZON BASIN; BRAZIL;

IBIS;

CARBON;

BRAZIL; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASON; TREE;

BRAZIL; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONS; TREES;

EID: 84983672172     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13442     Document Type: Article

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