Climate drivers of the Amazon forest greening.
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SUBMITTER: Wagner FH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5510836 | biostudies-literature | 2017
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Climate drivers of the Amazon forest greening.
Wagner Fabien Hubert FH Hérault Bruno B Rossi Vivien V Hilker Thomas T Maeda Eduardo Eiji EE Sanchez Alber A Lyapustin Alexei I AI Galvão Lênio Soares LS Wang Yujie Y Aragão Luiz E O C LEOC
PloS one 20170714 7
Our limited understanding of the climate controls on tropical forest seasonality is one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in modeling climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems. Combining leaf production, litterfall and climate observations from satellite and ground data in the Amazon forest, we show that seasonal variation in leaf production is largely triggered by climate signals, specifically, insolation increase (70.4% of the total area) and precipitation increase (29.6%). Increase ...[more]
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