Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin

This book offers a panorama of recent scientific achievements produced through the framework of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere programme (LBA) and other research programmes in the Brazilian Amazon. The content is highly interdisciplinary, with an overarching aim to contribute to the understand...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Nagy, Laszlo (Editor ), Forsberg, Bruce R. (Editor ), Artaxo, Paulo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis, 227
Temas:
Biotic communities.
Ecosystems.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Interactions between biosphere, atmosphere and human land use in the Amazon Basin: an introduction
  • Biogenic volatile organic compounds in Amazonian forest ecosystems
  • The hydrology and energy balance of the Amazon Basin
  • Extreme seasonal climate variations in the Amazon basin: droughts and floods
  • The Amazon carbon balance: an evaluation of methods and results
  • Climate and the Amazonian carbon balance
  • Aquatic ecosystems
  • Ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges of CO2 in dense and open 'terra firme' rain forests in Amazonia
  • Overview of forest carbon stocks study in Amazonas State, Brazil
  • Recent changes in Amazon forest biomass and dynamics
  • The biogeochemistry of the main forest vegetation types in Amazonia
  • Soil - vegetation interactions in Amazonia
  • Fires in Amazonia
  • Modelling Amazonian carbon budgets and vegetation dynamics in a changing climate
  • Land use, land cover and land use change in the Brazilian Legal Amazon (1960-2013)
  • The impact of land use on carbon stocks and fluxes in Brazilian Amazonia: Implications for policy
  • An Amazonian forest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change
  • The socio-ecological implications of land use and landscape change in the Brazilian Amazon
  • Amazonia in perspective as a changing environment.

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