How eddy covariance flux measurements have contributed to our understanding of Global Change Biology

DD Baldocchi - Global change biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A global network of long‐term carbon and water flux measurements has existed since the
late 1990s. With its representative sampling of the terrestrial biosphere's climate and …

Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

The global land surface satellite (GLASS) product suite

S Liang, J Cheng, K Jia, B Jiang, Q Liu… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) product suite currently contains 12 products,
including leaf area index, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation, fraction of …

Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm

CA Nobre, G Sampaio, LS Borma… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
For half a century, the process of economic integration of the Amazon has been based on
intensive use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, which has brought …

Amazon rainforest photosynthesis increases in response to atmospheric dryness

JK Green, J Berry, P Ciais, Y Zhang, P Gentine - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
Earth system models predict that increases in atmospheric and soil dryness will reduce
photosynthesis in the Amazon rainforest, with large implications for the global carbon cycle …

Recurrent droughts increase risk of cascading tip** events by outpacing adaptive capacities in the Amazon rainforest

N Wunderling, A Staal, B Sakschewski… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Tip** elements are nonlinear subsystems of the Earth system that have the potential to
abruptly shift to another state if environmental change occurs close to a critical threshold …

Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

K Guan, M Pan, H Li, A Wolf, J Wu, D Medvigy… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The response of tropical forests to droughts is highly uncertain. During the dry season,
canopy photosynthesis of some tropical forests can decline, whereas in others it can be …

Global variations in ecosystem‐scale isohydricity

AG Konings, P Gentine - Global change biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Droughts are expected to become more frequent and more intense under climate change.
Plant mortality rates and biomass declines in response to drought depend on stomatal and …

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter‐annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

X Xu, D Medvigy, JS Powers, JM Becknell… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We assessed whether diversity in plant hydraulic traits can explain the observed diversity in
plant responses to water stress in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF s). The Ecosystem …

Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests

J Wu, LP Albert, AP Lopes, N Restrepo-Coupe… - Science, 2016 - science.org
In evergreen tropical forests, the extent, magnitude, and controls on photosynthetic
seasonality are poorly resolved and inadequately represented in Earth system models …