Communications Earth & Environment (Sep 2022)

Background climate conditions regulated the photosynthetic response of Amazon forests to the 2015/2016 El Nino-Southern Oscillation event

  • Max Fancourt,
  • Guy Ziv,
  • Klaas Folkert Boersma,
  • Julia Tavares,
  • Yunxia Wang,
  • David Galbraith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00533-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The sensitivity of the photosynthetic response of Amazonian forests to ENSO-induced drought events is more strongly related to background seasonality in precipitation, soil conditions and species composition than drought intensity, according to remote sensing and statistical analysis.