Hydrologic resilience and Amazon productivity

Anders Ahlström; Josep G. Canadell; Guy Schurgers; Minchao Wu; Joseph A. Berry; Kaiyu Guan; Robert B. Jackson

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00306-z

Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Hydrologic resilience and Amazon productivity

Anders Ahlström,
Josep G. Canadell,
Guy Schurgers,
Minchao Wu,
Joseph A. Berry,
Kaiyu Guan,
Robert B. Jackson

Affiliations

Anders Ahlström: Department of Earth System Science, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Josep G. Canadell: Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Guy Schurgers: Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
Minchao Wu: Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
Joseph A. Berry: Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science
Kaiyu Guan: Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, W503, Turner Hall
Robert B. Jackson: Department of Earth System Science, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00306-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Earth system model simulations of future climate in the Amazon show little agreement. Here, the authors show that biases in internally generated climate explain most of this uncertainty and that the balance between water-saturated and water-limited evapotranspiration controls the Amazon resilience to climate change.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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