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Variations in Amazon forest productivity correlated with foliar nutrients and m...
Mercado, Lina; Patiño, Sandra; null, Tomas; Fyllas, Nikolaos M.; Weedon, Graham P.; Sitch, Stephen A.; Quesada, Carlos Alberto; Phillips, Oliver L.The rate of above-ground woody biomass production, WP, in some western Amazon forests exceeds those in the east by a factor of 2 or more. Underlying causes may include climate, soil nutrient limitations and species composition. In this modelling paper, we explore the implications of allowing key nutrients such as N and P to constrain the photosynthesis of Amazon forests, and also we examine the relationship bet...
Analysing Amazonian forest productivity using a new individual and trait-based ...
Fyllas, Nikolaos M.; Gloor, Manuel E.; Mercado, Lina; Sitch, Stephen A.; Quesada, Carlos Alberto; null, Tomas; Galbraith, David R.; Torre-Lezama, A.Repeated long-term censuses have revealed large-scale spatial patterns in Amazon basin forest structure and dynamism, with some forests in the west of the basin having up to a twice as high rate of aboveground biomass production and tree recruitment as forests in the east. Possible causes for this variation could be the climatic and edaphic gradients across the basin and/or the spatial distribution of tree spec...