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Título: Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance.
Autoria: ESPÍRITO-SANTO, F. D. B.
GLOOR, M.
KELLER, M.
MALHI, Y.
SAATCHI, S.
NELSON, B.
OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, R. C.
PEREIRA, C.
LLOYD, J.
FROLKING, S.
PALACE, M.
SHIMABUKURO, Y. E.
DUARTE, V.
MONTEAGUDO MENDOZA, A.
LÓPEZ-GONZÁLEZ, G.
BAKER, T. R.
FELDPAUSCH, T. R.
BRIENEN, R. J. W.
ASNER, G. P.
BOYD, D. S.
PHILLIPS, O. L.
Afiliação: Fernando D. B. Espírito-Santo, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Manuel Gloor, School of Geography, University of Leeds; Michael Keller, USDA Forest Service / University of New Hampshire / CNPM; Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford; Sassan Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Bruce Nelson, INPA; RAIMUNDO COSME DE OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, CPATU; Cleuton Pereira; Jon Lloyd, University of Leeds / James Cook University; Steve Frolking, University of New Hampshire; Michael Palace, University of New Hampshire; Yosio E. Shimabukuro, INPE; Valdete Duarte, INPE; Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Jardin Botanico de Missouri; Gabriela López-González, University of Leeds; Tim R. Baker, University of Leeds; Ted R. Feldpausch, University of Leeds; Roel J. W. Brienen, University of Leeds; Gregory P. Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science; Doreen S. Boyd, University of Nottingham, University Park; Oliver L. Phillips, University of Leeds.
Ano de publicação: 2014
Referência: Nature Communications, v. 5, art. n. 3434, 18 Mar. 2014.
Conteúdo: Forest inventory studies in the Amazon indicate a large terrestrial carbon sink. However, field plots may fail to represent forest mortality processes at landscape-scales of tropical forests. Here we characterize the frequency distribution of disturbance events in natural forests from 0.01ha to 2,651ha size throughout Amazonia using a novel combination of forest inventory, airborne lidar and satellite remote sensing data. We find that small-scale mortality events are responsible for aboveground biomass losses of ~1.7PgCy;1 over the entire Amazon region. We also find that intermediate-scale disturbances account for losses of ~0.2PgCy1, and that the largest-scale disturbances as a result of blow-downs only account for losses of ~0.004PgCy1. Simulation of growth and mortality indicates that even when all carbon losses from intermediate and large-scale disturbances are considered, these are outweighed by the net biomass accumulation by tree growth, supporting the inference of an Amazon carbon sink.
Thesagro: Carbono
Clima
Floresta
NAL Thesaurus: Amazonia
Palavras-chave: Ciência da Terra
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1038/ncomms4434
Notas: Artigo publicado por Pesquisador Visitante da Embrapa Monitoramento por Satélite.
Tipo do material: Artigo de periódico
Acesso: openAccess
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