There are a number of methods that can be used to help assess carbon budgets at the site to continental scales. Eddy covariance (EC) networks have been developed over the last decade and have been used to make many advances in our understanding. However, eddy covariance …
Journal: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Volume 139 (3): 302-315 (2010). DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.04.004 Sites: BR-Ma2
As climate change accelerates, it is important to know the likely impact of climate change on the carbon cycle (see the Perspective by Reich). Gross primary production (GPP) …
Journal: Science, Volume 329 (5993): 838-840 (2010). DOI: 10.1126/science.1189587 Sites: BR-Ma2
Tropical vegetation is a major source of global land surface evapotranspiration, and can thus play a major role in global hydrological cycles and global atmospheric circulation. Accurate prediction of tropical evapotranspiration is critical to our understanding of these processes under changing climate. We examined the controls on …
Journal: Global Change Biology, Volume 15 (11): 2694-2714 (2009). DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01813.x Sites: BR-Ma2
Terrestrial ecosystems sequester 2.1 Pg of atmospheric carbon annually. A large amount of the terrestrial sink is realized by forests. However, considerable uncertainties …
Journal: Global Change Biology, Volume 13 (12): 2509-2537 (2007). DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01439.x Sites: BR-Ma2
Uncertainty in biomass estimates is one of the greatest limitations to models of carbon flux in tropical forests. Previous comparisons of field-based estimates of the aboveground biomass (AGB) of trees greater than 10 cm diameter within Amazonia have been limited by the paucity of data for western Amazon forests, and the use of …
Journal: Global Change Biology, Volume 10 (5): 545-562 (2004). DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00751.x Sites: BR-Ma2, BR-Sa1, BR-Sa3
The Large-scale Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) is a multinational, interdisciplinary research program led by Brazil. Ecological studies in LBA focus on how tropical forest conversion, …
Journal: Ecological Applications, Volume 14 (sp4): 3-16 (2004). DOI: 10.1890/03-6003 Sites: BR-Ma2, BR-Sa1, BR-Sa3
Understanding how tropical forest carbon balance will respond to global change requires knowledge of individual heterotrophic and autotrophic respiratory sources, together with factors that control respiratory …
Journal: Ecological Applications, Volume 14 (sp4): 72-88 (2004). DOI: 10.1890/01-6012 Sites: BR-Ma2, BR-Sa1, BR-Sa3
We analyzed errors and uncertainties in time-integrated eddy correlation data for sites in the Amazon. A well-known source of potential error in eddy correlation is through possible advective losses of CO2emissions during calm nights. There are also questions related to the treatment of low frequencies, non-horizontal …
Journal: Ecological Applications, Volume 14 (sp4): 101-113 (2004). DOI: 10.1890/02-6004 Sites: BR-Ma2, BR-Sa1, BR-Sa3
Soil surface CO2 flux (RS) is overwhelmingly the product of respiration by roots (autotrophic respiration, RA) and soil organisms (heterotrophic respiration, RH). Many studies have attempted to partition RS into these two components, with highly …
Journal: Global Change Biology, Volume 10 (10): 1756-1766 (2004). DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00816.x Sites: BR-Ma2, CA-Man, CA-Oas, CA-Obs, US-Dk1, US-Dk2, US-Dk3, US-Ha2, US-Me1, US-Me3, US-Me4, US-Me5, US-WBW
Forests around Manaus have staged the oldest and the longest forest-atmosphere CO2 exchange studies made anywhere in the Amazon. Since July 1999 the exchange of CO2, water, and energy, as well as weather variables, have been measured almost continuously over two forests, 11 km apart, in the Cuieiras reserve near Manaus, Brazil. This …
Journal: Journal Of Geophysical Research, Volume 107 (D20): (2002). DOI: 10.1029/2001JD000676 Sites: BR-Ma2