Amazon forests green-up during 2005 drought.
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Abstract
Coupled climate-carbon cycle models suggest that Amazon forests are vulnerable to both long- and short-term droughts, but satellite observations showed a large-scale photosynthetic green-up in intact evergreen forests of the Amazon in response to a short, intense drought in 2005. These findings suggest that Amazon forests, although threatened by human-caused deforestation and fire and possibly by more severe long-term droughts, may be more resilient to climate changes than ecosystem models assume.
Medical subject headings
- Disasters
- Ecosystem
- Photosynthesis
- Rain
- Trees
- Tropical Climate