The light-deficient climates of western Central African evergreen forests

The light-deficient climates of western Central African evergreen forests

Rainfall thresholds under which forests grow in Central Africa are lower than those of Amazonia and southeast Asia. Attention is thus regularly paid to rainfall whose seasonality and interannual variability has been shown to control Central African forests’ water balance and photosynthetic activity....

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Main Authors: Nathalie Philippon, Guillaume Cornu, Lou Monteil, Valery Gond, Vincent Moron, Julien Pergaud, Geneviève Sèze, Sylvain Bigot, Pierre Camberlin, Charles Doumenge, Adeline Fayolle, Alfred Ngomanda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
tropical forests
central Africa
irradiance
diurnal cycles
cloudiness
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf5d8

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf5d8

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