Authors
TR Feldpausch, OL Phillips, RJW Brienen, E Gloor, J Lloyd, G Lopez‐Gonzalez, A Monteagudo‐Mendoza, Y Malhi, A Alarcón, E Álvarez Dávila, P Alvarez‐Loayza, A Andrade, LEOC Aragao, L Arroyo, GA Aymard C, TR Baker, C Baraloto, J Barroso, D Bonal, W Castro, V Chama, J Chave, Tomas Ferreira Domingues, S Fauset, N Groot, E Honorio Coronado, S Laurance, William F Laurance, SL Lewis, JC Licona, BS Marimon, BH Marimon‐Junior, C Mendoza Bautista, DA Neill, EA Oliveira, C Oliveira dos Santos, NC Pallqui Camacho, G Pardo‐Molina, A Prieto, CA Quesada, F Ramírez, H Ramírez‐Angulo, M Réjou‐Méchain, A Rudas, G Saiz, RP Salomão, JE Silva‐Espejo, M Silveira, H Ter Steege, J Stropp, J Terborgh, R Thomas‐Caesar, GMF Van der Heijden, R Vásquez Martinez, E Vilanova, VA Vos
Publication date
2016/7
Journal
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Volume
30
Issue
7
Pages
964-982
Description
The Amazon Basin has experienced more variable climate over the last decade, with a severe and widespread drought in 2005 causing large basin‐wide losses of biomass. A drought of similar climatological magnitude occurred again in 2010; however, there has been no basin‐wide ground‐based evaluation of effects on vegetation. We examine to what extent the 2010 drought affected forest dynamics using ground‐based observations of mortality and growth from an extensive forest plot network. We find that during the 2010 drought interval, forests did not gain biomass (net change: −0.43 Mg ha−1, confidence interval (CI): −1.11, 0.19, n = 97), regardless of whether forests experienced precipitation deficit anomalies. This contrasted with a long‐term biomass sink during the baseline pre‐2010 drought period (1998 to pre‐2010) of 1.33 Mg ha−1 yr−1 (CI: 0.90, 1.74, p < 0.01). The resulting net impact of …
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