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Carbon cycle

Amazon forest carbon is highly seasonal

Rowland L, Hill TC, Stahl C, et al. · Global change biology · 2014

Open access · cc by · source: Europe PMC

An Amazon forest stored about four times more carbon in the dry season than the wet season.

Key findings

Annual GPP 3756.7 gC m−2 yr−1 exceeded Reco; dry-season NEE was about four times stronger; heterotrophic respiration fell 36% in the dry season; CUE was 0.36.

Methodology

Assimilated eddy-covariance and biometric data into a carbon model with separate wet- and dry-season parameters for a seasonal Amazonian forest.

Limitations

Does not show that all Amazon forests share this fourfold dry-season sink.

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