Resilience of Amazon forests emerges from plant trait diversity

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1032-1036

  Sakschewski, Boris ^a,b   Von Bloh, Werner ^a,b   Boit, Alice ^a,b   Poorter, Lourens ^c   Peña Claros, Marielos ^c   Heinke, Jens ^a,b   Joshi, Jasmin ^d   Thonicke, Kirsten ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PLANT COMMUNITY;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84992643608     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3109     Document Type: Article

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