The Amazon basin in transition

EA Davidson, AC de Araújo, P Artaxo, JK Balch… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance
in the Amazon basin. Recent studies have demonstrated considerable resilience of …

Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change

K Ribeiro, FS Pacheco, JW Ferreira… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Peatlands are carbon‐rich ecosystems that cover 185–423 million hectares (Mha) of the
earth's surface. The majority of the world's peatlands are in temperate and boreal zones …

The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

M Migliavacca, T Musavi, MD Mahecha, JA Nelson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The leaf economics spectrum, and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions revealed
fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach

M Jung, C Schwalm, M Migliavacca, S Walther… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
FLUXNET comprises globally distributed eddy-covariance-based estimates of carbon fluxes
between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Since eddy covariance flux towers have a …

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

RJW Brienen, OL Phillips, TR Feldpausch, E Gloor… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Atmospheric carbon dioxide records indicate that the land surface has acted as a strong
global carbon sink over recent decades,, with a substantial fraction of this sink probably …

[图书][B] The normalized difference vegetation index

N Pettorelli - 2013 - books.google.com
There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

K Guan, M Pan, H Li, A Wolf, J Wu, D Medvigy… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The response of tropical forests to droughts is highly uncertain. During the dry season,
canopy photosynthesis of some tropical forests can decline, whereas in others it can be …

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: A meta‐analysis of experimental manipulation

Z Wu, P Dijkstra, GW Koch, J Peñuelas… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Global mean temperature is predicted to increase by 2–7° C and precipitation to change
across the globe by the end of this century. To quantify climate effects on ecosystem …

Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements

LV Gatti, M Gloor, JB Miller, CE Doughty, Y Malhi… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Feedbacks between land carbon pools and climate provide one of the largest sources of
uncertainty in our predictions of global climate,. Estimates of the sensitivity of the terrestrial …

Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season

DC Morton, J Nagol, CC Carabajal, J Rosette… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The seasonality of sunlight and rainfall regulates net primary production in tropical forests.
Previous studies have suggested that light is more limiting than water for tropical forest …