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The Amazon Forest [PDF]

, 1991
Most of the Amazon Basin is covered with dense tropical rain forest comprised of many different species of trees and shrubs, often hundreds of different species per square kilometer. These are by far the world’s most extensive and rich virgin forests. The forests are often less dense and even patchy on the highland fringes of the basin.
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Fire may prevent future Amazon forest recovery after large-scale deforestation

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
The Amazon forest is regarded as a tipping element of the Earth system, susceptible to a regime change from tropical forest to savanna and grassland due to anthropogenic land use and climate change.
Markus Drüke, Boris Sakschewski, Werner von Bloh, Maik Billing, Wolfgang Lucht, Kirsten Thonicke   +5 more
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Forest regeneration pathways in contrasting deforestation patterns of Amazonia

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Secondary vegetation is increasingly recognized as a key element for biodiversity conservation and carbon stocks in human-modified landscapes. Contrasting deforestation patterns should lead to distinct patterns of forest regeneration, but this ...
Lucas Alencar, Lucas Alencar, Maria Isabel Sobral Escada, José Luís Campana Camargo   +3 more
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New generation geostationary satellite observations support seasonality in greenness of the Amazon evergreen forests

Nature Communications, 2021
Cloud cover and scarcity of ground-based validation hinder remote sensing of forest dynamics in the Amazon basin. Here, the authors analyse imagery from a high-frequency geostationary satellite sensor to study monthly NDVI patterns in the Amazon forest ...
Hirofumi Hashimoto, Weile Wang, Jennifer L. Dungan, Shuang Li, Andrew R. Michaelis, Hideaki Takenaka, Atsushi Higuchi, Ranga B. Myneni, Ramakrishna R. Nemani   +8 more
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Biogeochemical cycling of carbon, water, energy, trace gases and aerosols in Amazonia: The LBA Eustach experiments. [PDF]

, 2002
The biogeochemical cycling of carbon, water, energy, aerosols, and trace gases in the Amazon Basin was investigated in the project European Studies on Trace Gases and Atmospheric Chemistry as a Contribution to the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere ...
Almeida, S.S. de, von Jouanne, J., Lourdes Ruivo, M.A. de, Andreae, M.O., Culf, A. D., Culf, A.D., Manzi, A., M. O. Andreae, A. D. Nobre, Manzi, A.O., Silva-Dias, M.A., Nobre, Antonio Donato, Nobre, C., C. Nobre, M. J. Waterloo, Artaxo, P., Costa, A. L., F. X. Meixner, Grace, J., Jouanne, J., von, P. Ciccioli, da Costa, A., Ciccioli, P., Waterloo, M., C. Brandão, Silva-Dias, M.A.F. da, Culf, A., Andreae, M. O., Waterloo, M. J., Meixner, F.X., J. Grace, Silva-Dias, M. A., Carswell, F.E., Costa, A.L., da, de Almeida, S.S., Gash, J.H.C., P. Kabat, da Costa, A.L., J. L. Esteves, Esteves, J.L., M. A. Silva‐Dias, Carswell, F. E., Manzi, A. O., Esteves, J., Carswell, F., de Lourdes Ruivo, M., P. Stefani, Manzi, Antonio Ocimar, F. E. Carswell, A. O. Manzi, J. von Jouanne, Waterloo, M.J., A. D. Culf, Kabat, P., M. d. L. P. Ruivo, Nobre, Carlos Afonso, Valentini, R., Jouanne, J. von, Nobre, A. D., Lelieveld, J., da Silva-Dias, M.A.F., Ruivo, M., Ruivo, M.L.P., Gash, J., Nobre, A., da Costa, A. L., Ruivo, M. D. L. P., Silva Dias, Maria Assuncao, Y. Malhi, Andreae, M., Gash, J. H. C., J. H. C. Gash, J. Lelieveld, Brandao, C., Nobre, C.A., R. Valentini, Meixner, F. X., Lourdes Ruivo, M., de, P. Artaxo, Silva-Dias, M., Meixner, F., Nobre, A.D., Esteves, J. L., de Lourdes Ruivo, M.A., A. L. da Costa, Malhi, Y., Stefani, P.   +86 more
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The role of vicariance and dispersal on the temporal range dynamics of forest vipers in the Neotropical region.

PLoS ONE, 2021
The emergence of the diagonal of open/dry vegetations, including Chaco, Cerrado and Caatinga, is suggested to have acted as a dispersal barrier for terrestrial organisms by fragmenting a single large forest that existed in South America into the present ...
Matheus Pontes-Nogueira, Marcio Martins, Laura R V Alencar, Ricardo J Sawaya   +3 more
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Factors controlling spatio-temporal variation in carbon dioxide efflux from surface litter, roots, and soil organic matter at four rain forest sites in the eastern Amazon [PDF]

, 2007
This study explored biotic and abiotic causes for spatio-temporal variation in soil respiration from surface litter, roots, and soil organic matter over one year at four rain forest sites with different vegetation structures and soil types in the eastern
da Costa, A. C. L., de Almeida, S. S., Meir, P., Aragao, L. E. O. C., Braga, A., de Athaydes, J., Metcalfe, D. B., Malhi, Y., Williams, M.; id_orcid, Goncalves, P. H. L.   +9 more
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River logjams cause frequent large-scale forest die-off events in southwestern Amazonia [PDF]

Earth System Dynamics, 2017
This paper investigates the dynamics of logjam-induced floods and alluvial deposition in the Bolivian Amazon and the effects these have on forest disturbance and recovery cycles. It expands on previous work by Gullison et al.
U. Lombardo
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Large-vertebrate assemblages of primary and secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon. [PDF]

, 2007
Secondary forests account for 40% of all tropical forests yet little is known regarding their suitability as habitat for diurnal large mammals and game birds. This is especially so for second-growth that develops on large areas of degraded land.
Peres, Carlos A., Parry, Luke, Barlow, Jos   +2 more
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Morphological correlates of fire-induced tree mortality in a central Amazonian forest. [PDF]

, 2003
Tree characteristics were recorded from 2829 standing trees in 24 0.25-ha terra firme forest plots in central Amazonia, 3 y after a surface fire had swept through the study area.
Peres, Carlos A., Lagan, Bernard O., Barlow, Jos   +2 more
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