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| Title |
Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest
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| Published in |
Science, March 2009
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1164033 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Oliver L. Phillips, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Simon L. Lewis, Joshua B. Fisher, Jon Lloyd, Gabriela López-González, Yadvinder Malhi, Abel Monteagudo, Julie Peacock, Carlos A. Quesada, Geertje van der Heijden, Samuel Almeida, Iêda Amaral, Luzmila Arroyo, Gerardo Aymard, Tim R. Baker, Olaf Bánki, Lilian Blanc, Damien Bonal, Paulo Brando, Jerome Chave, Átila Cristina Alves de Oliveira, Nallaret Dávila Cardozo, Claudia I. Czimczik, Ted R. Feldpausch, Maria Aparecida Freitas, Emanuel Gloor, Niro Higuchi, Eliana Jiménez, Gareth Lloyd, Patrick Meir, Casimiro Mendoza, Alexandra Morel, David A. Neill, Daniel Nepstad, Sandra Patiño, Maria Cristina Peñuela, Adriana Prieto, Fredy Ramírez, Michael Schwarz, Javier Silva, Marcos Silveira, Anne Sota Thomas, Hans ter Steege, Juliana Stropp, Rodolfo Vásquez, Przemyslaw Zelazowski, Esteban Alvarez Dávila, Sandy Andelman, Ana Andrade, Kuo-Jung Chao, Terry Erwin, Anthony Di Fiore, Eurídice Honorio C., Helen Keeling, Tim J. Killeen, William F. Laurance, Antonio Peña Cruz, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Percy Núñez Vargas, Hirma Ramírez-Angulo, Agustín Rudas, Rafael Salamão, Natalino Silva, John Terborgh, Armando Torres-Lezama |
| Abstract |
Amazon forests are a key but poorly understood component of the global carbon cycle. If, as anticipated, they dry this century, they might accelerate climate change through carbon losses and changed surface energy balances. We used records from multiple long-term monitoring plots across Amazonia to assess forest responses to the intense 2005 drought, a possible analog of future events. Affected forest lost biomass, reversing a large long-term carbon sink, with the greatest impacts observed where the dry season was unusually intense. Relative to pre-2005 conditions, forest subjected to a 100-millimeter increase in water deficit lost 5.3 megagrams of aboveground biomass of carbon per hectare. The drought had a total biomass carbon impact of 1.2 to 1.6 petagrams (1.2 x 10(15) to 1.6 x 10(15) grams). Amazon forests therefore appear vulnerable to increasing moisture stress, with the potential for large carbon losses to exert feedback on climate change. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 2 | 33% |
| Brazil | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,889 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 27 | 1% |
| United States | 24 | 1% |
| Germany | 9 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | <1% |
| Colombia | 6 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 4 | <1% |
| Peru | 4 | <1% |
| Japan | 4 | <1% |
| Spain | 3 | <1% |
| Other | 25 | 1% |
| Unknown | 1775 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 384 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 352 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 245 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 193 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 112 | 6% |
| Other | 339 | 18% |
| Unknown | 264 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 580 | 31% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 519 | 27% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 273 | 14% |
| Engineering | 48 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 20 | 1% |
| Other | 104 | 6% |
| Unknown | 345 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 143. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 February 2024.
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#292,905
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#7,925
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#604
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