Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink

Forests of the Amazon Basin have experienced frequent and severe droughts in recent years with significant impacts on their carbon cycling. Here, using satellite LiDAR samples from 2003 to 2008, the authors show the long-term legacy of these droughts with persistent loss of carbon stocks after the 2...

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Main Authors: Yan Yang, Sassan S. Saatchi, Liang Xu, Yifan Yu, Sungho Choi, Nathan Phillips, Robert Kennedy, Michael Keller, Yuri Knyazikhin, Ranga B. Myneni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05668-6