title: Amazon forests green-up during 2005 drought.
abstract: Coupled climate-carbon cycle models suggest that Amazon forests are vulnerable to both long- and short-term droughts, but satellite observations showed a large-scale photosynthetic green-up in intact evergreen forests of the Amazon in response to a short, intense drought in 2005. These findings suggest that Amazon forests, although threatened by human-caused deforestation and fire and possibly by more severe long-term droughts, may be more resilient to climate changes than ecosystem models assume.
authors: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. saleska@email.arizona.edu
authors: Scott R
authors: SR
authors: Saleska
authors: Kamel
authors: K
authors: Didan
authors: Alfredo R
authors: AR
authors: Huete
authors: Humberto R
authors: HR
authors: da Rocha
mesh_terms: D001838:Bolivia; D001938:Brazil; D004190:Disasters; D017753:Ecosystem; D010568:Peru; D010788:Photosynthesis; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000378:metabolism; D011891:Rain; D012621:Seasons; D014197:Trees / Q000378:metabolism; D014329:Tropical Climate