The Amazon basin in transition

In a review paper that appeared in this week’s edition of Nature, Davidson and colleagues describe the interactions and feedbacks between land use change, climate change, and a range of more local climatically mediated processes such as water balance, winds and pressure systems and fire in the Amazon basin. I found this a very nice overview paper on how all these biophysical processes play together in influencing the Amazon system.

References
Davidson, E. A.; de Araujo, A. C.; Artaxo, P.; Balch, J. K.; Brown, I. F.; C. Bustamante, M. M.; Coe, M. T.; DeFries, R. S.; Keller, M.; Longo, M.; Munger, J. W.; Schroeder, W.; Soares-Filho, B. S.; Souza, C. M. & Wofsy, S. C. (2012) The Amazon basin in transition. Nature, 481, 321-328.

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