期刊
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 187, 期 3, 页码 579-591出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03309.x
关键词
Amazon rainforest; biomass; drought; tree mortality; wood production
资金
- NERC [NER/A/S/2003/1609, NE/B503384/1]
- EU
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh010023, NE/B503384/1] Funding Source: researchfish
P>At least one climate model predicts severe reductions of rainfall over Amazonia during this century. Long-term throughfall exclusion (TFE) experiments represent the best available means to investigate the resilience of the Amazon rainforest to such droughts. Results are presented from a 7 yr TFE study at Caxiuana National Forest, eastern Amazonia. We focus on the impacts of the drought on tree mortality, wood production and above-ground biomass. Tree mortality in the TFE plot over the experimental period was 2.5% yr-1, compared with 1.25% yr-1 in a nearby control plot experiencing normal rainfall. Differences in stem mortality between plots were greatest in the largest (> 40 cm diameter at breast height (dbh)) size class (4.1% yr-1 in the TFE and 1.4% yr-1 in the control). Wood production in the TFE plot was c. 30% lower than in the control plot. Together, these changes resulted in a loss of 37.8 +/- 2.0 Mg carbon (C) ha-1 in the TFE plot (2002-2008), compared with no change in the control. These results are remarkably consistent with those from another TFE (at Tapajos National Forest), suggesting that eastern Amazonian forests may respond to prolonged drought in a predictable manner.
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