Dry-season greening of Amazon forests

Affiliations

¹ Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
² Environmental and Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
³ Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Belem, Brazil.
⁴ Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia.
⁵ National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), São José dos Campos, Brazil.

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Scott R Saleska et al. Nature. 2016.

. 2016 Mar 17;531(7594):E4-5.

doi: 10.1038/nature16457.

¹ Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
² Environmental and Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
³ Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Belem, Brazil.
⁴ Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia.
⁵ National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), São José dos Campos, Brazil.

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Morton DC, Nagol J, Carabajal CC, Rosette J, Palace M, Cook BD, Vermote EF, Harding DJ, North PR. Morton DC, et al. Nature. 2016 Mar 17;531(7594):E6. doi: 10.1038/nature16458. Nature. 2016. PMID: 26983545 No abstract available.

Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season.
Morton DC, Nagol J, Carabajal CC, Rosette J, Palace M, Cook BD, Vermote EF, Harding DJ, North PR. Morton DC, et al. Nature. 2014 Feb 13;506(7487):221-4. doi: 10.1038/nature13006. Epub 2014 Feb 5. Nature. 2014. PMID: 24499816