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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 5, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4434
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- NASA Earth System Science Fellowship (NESSF) [NNX07AN84N]
- NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program
- CalTech Postdoctoral Fellowship at JPL
- NERC [NE/F005806/1]
- European Research Council
- Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology
- National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA)
- Moore Foundation
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/B503384/1, NE/B504630/1, NE/I021160/1, NE/F005806/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/I021160/1, NE/F005806/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Forest inventory studies in the Amazon indicate a large terrestrial carbon sink. However, field plots may fail to represent forest mortality processes at landscape-scales of tropical forests. Here we characterize the frequency distribution of disturbance events in natural forests from 0.01 ha to 2,651 ha size throughout Amazonia using a novel combination of forest inventory, airborne lidar and satellite remote sensing data. We find that small-scale mortality events are responsible for aboveground biomass losses of similar to 1.7 Pg Cy-1 over the entire Amazon region. We also find that intermediate-scale disturbances account for losses of similar to 0.2 Pg Cy-1, and that the largest-scale disturbances as a result of blow-downs only account for losses of similar to 0.004 Pg Cy-1. Simulation of growth and mortality indicates that even when all carbon losses from intermediate and large-scale disturbances are considered, these are outweighed by the net biomass accumulation by tree growth, supporting the inference of an Amazon carbon sink.
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