Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1240-1257

  Wu, Jin ^a,k   Guan, Kaiyu ^b   Hayek, Matthew ^c   Restrepo Coupe, Natalia ^a,d   Wiedemann, Kenia T ^a,c   Xu, Xiangtao ^e   Wehr, Richard ^a   Christoffersen, Bradley O ^a,f   Miao, Guofang ^b,g   da Silva, Rodrigo ^h   de Araujo, Alessandro C ⁱ   Oliviera, Raimundo C ⁱ   Camargo, Plinio B ^j   Monson, Russell K ^a   Huete, Alfredo R ^d   Saleska, Scott R ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO OESTE DO PARÁ   (Brazil)

ⁱ EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^k BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

environmental limitation; leaf demography; leaf quality; leaf quantity; light use efficiency; phenology; physiology; temperature sensitivity on productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVERGREEN FOREST; LEAF; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMAZONIA;

ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; SEASON; TREE;

ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; SEASONS; TREES;

EID: 84991037830     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13509     Document Type: Article

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