The impact of long dry periods on the aboveground biomass in a tropical forests: 20 years of monitoring.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long-term studies of community and population dynamics indicate that abrupt disturbances often catalyse changes in vegetation and carbon stocks. These disturbances include the opening of clearings, rainfall seasonality, and drought, as well as fire and direct human disturbance. Such events may be super-imposed on longer-term trends in disturbance, such as those associated with climate change (heating, drying), as well as resources. Intact neotropical forests have recently experienced increased drought frequency and fire occurrence, on top of pervasive increases in atmospheric CO₂ concentrations, but we lack long-term records of responses to such changes especially in the critical transitional areas at the interface of forest and savanna biomes. Here, we presen

SUBMITTER: de Meira Junior MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7261387 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature