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

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  • Douglas C. Morton

    (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

  • Jyoteshwar Nagol

    (University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
    Global Land Cover Facility, College Park)

  • Claudia C. Carabajal

    (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    Sigma Space Corporation)

  • Jacqueline Rosette

    (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
    Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK)

  • Michael Palace

    (Earth System Research Center, University of New Hampshire)

  • Bruce D. Cook

    (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

  • Eric F. Vermote

    (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

  • David J. Harding

    (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

  • Peter R. J. North

    (Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK)

Abstract

Lidar and optical satellite observations of Amazon forests indicate consistent canopy structure and reflectance during the dry season, challenging the paradigm of light-limited tropical forest productivity.

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  • Douglas C. Morton & Jyoteshwar Nagol & Claudia C. Carabajal & Jacqueline Rosette & Michael Palace & Bruce D. Cook & Eric F. Vermote & David J. Harding & Peter R. J. North, 2014. "Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season," Nature, Nature, vol. 506(7487), pages 221-224, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:506:y:2014:i:7487:d:10.1038_nature13006
    DOI: 10.1038/nature13006
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    1. Minxia Zhang & Shulin Chen & Hong Jiang & Yong Lin & Jinmeng Zhang & Xinzhang Song & Guomo Zhou, 2019. "Water-Use Characteristics and Physiological Response of Moso Bamboo to Flash Droughts," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(12), pages 1-18, June.
    2. Elton Luis Silva Abel & Rafael Coll Delgado & Regiane Souza Vilanova & Paulo Eduardo Teodoro & Carlos Antonio Silva Junior & Marcel Carvalho Abreu & Guilherme Fernando Capristo Silva, 2021. "Environmental dynamics of the Juruá watershed in the Amazon," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(5), pages 6769-6785, May.
    3. Wantong Li & Javier Pacheco-Labrador & Mirco Migliavacca & Diego Miralles & Anne Hoek van Dijke & Markus Reichstein & Matthias Forkel & Weijie Zhang & Christian Frankenberg & Annu Panwar & Qian Zhang , 2023. "Widespread and complex drought effects on vegetation physiology inferred from space," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-13, December.
    4. Fischer, Rico & Bohn, Friedrich & Dantas de Paula, Mateus & Dislich, Claudia & Groeneveld, Jürgen & Gutiérrez, Alvaro G. & Kazmierczak, Martin & Knapp, Nikolai & Lehmann, Sebastian & Paulick, Sebastia, 2016. "Lessons learned from applying a forest gap model to understand ecosystem and carbon dynamics of complex tropical forests," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 326(C), pages 124-133.
    5. Matheus Henrique Nunes & José Luís Campana Camargo & Grégoire Vincent & Kim Calders & Rafael S. Oliveira & Alfredo Huete & Yhasmin Mendes de Moura & Bruce Nelson & Marielle N. Smith & Scott C. Stark &, 2022. "Forest fragmentation impacts the seasonality of Amazonian evergreen canopies," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-10, December.

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