Amazon Forests Green-Up During 2005 Drought | Zendy

S. R. Saleska | Zendy; Kamel Didan | Zendy; Alfredo Huete | Zendy; Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha | Zendy

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Amazon Forests Green-Up During 2005 Drought

Author(s) -

S. R. Saleska,

Kamel Didan,

Alfredo Huete,

Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.1146663

Subject(s) - amazon rainforest , evergreen , deforestation (computer science) , threatened species , climate change , ecosystem , environmental science , amazon basin , carbon cycle , geography , agroforestry , ecology , biology , habitat , computer science , programming language

Coupled climate-carbon cycle models suggest that Amazon forests are vulnerable to both long- and short-term droughts, but satellite observations showed a large-scale photosynthetic green-up in intact evergreen forests of the Amazon in response to a short, intense drought in 2005. These findings suggest that Amazon forests, although threatened by human-caused deforestation and fire and possibly by more severe long-term droughts, may be more resilient to climate changes than ecosystem models assume.

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