Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

Christopher E. Doughty (), D. B. Metcalfe, C. A. J. Girardin, F. Farfán Amézquita, D. Galiano Cabrera, W. Huaraca Huasco, J. E. Silva-Espejo, A. Araujo-Murakami, M. C. da Costa, W. Rocha, T. R. Feldpausch, A. L. M. Mendoza, A. C. L. da Costa, P. Meir, O. L. Phillips and Y. Malhi
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Christopher E. Doughty: Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
D. B. Metcalfe: Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
C. A. J. Girardin: Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
F. Farfán Amézquita: Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad de Cusco, Apartado Postal Nro 921, Cusco, Perú
D. Galiano Cabrera: Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad de Cusco, Apartado Postal Nro 921, Cusco, Perú
W. Huaraca Huasco: Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad de Cusco, Apartado Postal Nro 921, Cusco, Perú
J. E. Silva-Espejo: Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad de Cusco, Apartado Postal Nro 921, Cusco, Perú
A. Araujo-Murakami: Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Av. Irala 565, Casilla 2489, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
M. C. da Costa: Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Geociências, Faculdade de Meteorologia, Rua Augusto Correa, n° 01, CEP 66075 - 110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
W. Rocha: IPAM Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia Rua Horizontina, 104, Centro, 78640-000 Canarana, Mato Grosso, Brazil
T. R. Feldpausch: College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK
A. L. M. Mendoza: Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad de Cusco, Apartado Postal Nro 921, Cusco, Perú
A. C. L. da Costa: Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Geociências, Faculdade de Meteorologia, Rua Augusto Correa, n° 01, CEP 66075 - 110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
P. Meir: School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, UK
O. L. Phillips: School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Y. Malhi: Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK

Nature, 2015, vol. 519, issue 7541, 78-82

Abstract: Severe drought in a tropical forest ecosystem suppresses photosynthetic carbon uptake and plant maintenance respiration, but growth is maintained, suggesting that, overall, less carbon is available for tree tissue maintenance and defence, which may cause the subsequent observed increase in tree mortality.

Date: 2015
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