Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink

Yan Yang; Sassan S. Saatchi; Liang Xu; Yifan Yu; Sungho Choi; Nathan Phillips; Robert Kennedy; Michael Keller; Yuri Knyazikhin; Ranga B. Myneni

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05668-6

Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink

Yan Yang,
Sassan S. Saatchi,
Liang Xu,
Yifan Yu,
Sungho Choi,
Nathan Phillips,
Robert Kennedy,
Michael Keller,
Yuri Knyazikhin,
Ranga B. Myneni

Affiliations

Yan Yang: Institute of Environment and Sustainability, University of California
Sassan S. Saatchi: Institute of Environment and Sustainability, University of California
Liang Xu: Institute of Environment and Sustainability, University of California
Yifan Yu: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Sungho Choi: Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University
Nathan Phillips: Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University
Robert Kennedy: Dept. of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
Michael Keller: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Yuri Knyazikhin: Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University
Ranga B. Myneni: Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05668-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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 2005 drought.

Published in Nature Communications

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