Simulated sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest to extreme drought

Simulated sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest to extreme drought

The Amazon rainforest is highly biodiverse and has the largest extent of the remaining intact tropical forests in the world. To this day, undisturbed tropical forests act as a carbon sink by taking up about 15% of anthropogenic carbon emissions per year. However, in the past decades, a declining tre...

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Main Authors: Phillip Papastefanou, Thomas A M Pugh, Allan Buras, Katrin Fleischer, Thorsten E E Grams, Thomas Hickler, David Lapola, Daijun Liu, Christian S Zang, Anja Rammig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
Amazon rainforest
drought impacts
plant hydraulics
vegetation modeling
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad8f48
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