The Amazon basin in transition

Título	The Amazon basin in transition
Autores	Eric A. Davidson (a) Alessandro C. de Araújo (b) Paulo Artaxo (c) Jennifer K. Balch (d) I. Foster Brown (e) Mercedes M. C. Bustamante (f) Michael T. Coe (a) Ruth S. DeFries (g) Michael Keller (h) Marcos Longo (i) J. William Munger (i) Wilfrid Schroeder (j) Britaldo S. Soares-Filho (k) Carlos M. Souza (l) Steven C. Wofsy (i)
Vinculação dos autores	(a) The Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, 02540-1644, Massachusetts, USA (b) Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Travessa Dr. Enéas Pinheiro, s/n, Marco, Caixa Postal 48, Belém, Pará 66095-100, Brazil Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA), Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), Avenida André Araújo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas, 69060-001, Brazil (c) Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa R, 187, São Paulo, SP 05508-090, Brazil (d) The Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, 02540-1644, Massachusetts, USA National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, California 93101, USA (e) The Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, 02540-1644, Massachusetts, USA Universidade Federal do Acre, Mestrado em Ecologia e Manejo de Recursos Naturais, Parque Zoobotânico, Distrito Industrial, Rio Branco, AC 69915-900, Brazil (f) Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, Brasília, Distrito Federal 70910-900, Brazil (g) Department of Ecology, Columbia University, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, New York 10027, USA (h) USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Jardín Botánico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926-1119, USA Embrapa Monitoramento por Satélite, Avenida Soldado Passarinho, 303, Fazenda Chapadão, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil (i) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA (j) University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, 5825 University Research Court Suite 4001, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA (k) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 31270-900, Brazil (l) Imazon, Centro de Geotecnologia do Imazon, Rua Domingos Marreiros 2020, Belém, Pará 66060-160, Brazil ,
Ano de publicação	2012
Meio de publicação	Nature (Volume 481, Pages 321–328, 2012)
DOI (Digital Object Identifier)	https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10717

Abstract Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon basin. Recent studies have demonstrated considerable resilience of Amazonian forests to moderate annual drought, but they also show that interactions between deforestation, fire and drought potentially lead to losses of carbon storage and changes in regional precipitation patterns and river discharge. Although the basin-wide impacts of land use and drought may not yet surpass the magnitude of natural variability of hydrologic and biogeochemical cycles, there are some signs of a transition to a disturbance-dominated regime. These signs include changing energy and water cycles in the southern and eastern portions of the Amazon basin. Download