The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large‐scale hydrological refugia from drought?

FRC Costa, J Schietti, SC Stark, MN Smith - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forest function is of global significance to climate change responses, and critically
determined by water availability patterns. Groundwater is tightly related to soil water through …

Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global Earth surface modelling: A review

G Balsamo, A Agusti-Parareda, C Albergel, G Arduini… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we review the use of satellite-based remote sensing in combination with in situ
data to inform Earth surface modelling. This involves verification and optimization methods …

[HTML][HTML] MODIS collection 6 MAIAC algorithm

A Lyapustin, Y Wang, S Korkin… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - amt.copernicus.org
This paper describes the latest version of the algorithm MAIAC used for processing the
MODIS Collection 6 data record. Since initial publication in 2011–2012, MAIAC has …

Amazon rainforest photosynthesis increases in response to atmospheric dryness

JK Green, J Berry, P Ciais, Y Zhang, P Gentine - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
Earth system models predict that increases in atmospheric and soil dryness will reduce
photosynthesis in the Amazon rainforest, with large implications for the global carbon cycle …

Amazon drought and forest response: Largely reduced forest photosynthesis but slightly increased canopy greenness during the extreme drought of 2015/2016

J Yang, H Tian, S Pan, G Chen, B Zhang… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Amazon droughts have impacted regional ecosystem functioning as well as global carbon
cycling. The severe dry‐season droughts in 2005 and 2010, driven by Atlantic sea surface …

Monitoring tree-crown scale autumn leaf phenology in a temperate forest with an integration of PlanetScope and drone remote sensing observations

S Wu, J Wang, Z Yan, G Song, Y Chen, Q Ma… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In temperate forests, autumn leaf phenology signals the end of leaf growing season and
shows large variability across tree-crowns, which importantly mediates photosynthetic …

Forest fragmentation impacts the seasonality of Amazonian evergreen canopies

MH Nunes, JLC Camargo, G Vincent, K Calders… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Predictions of the magnitude and timing of leaf phenology in Amazonian forests remain
highly controversial. Here, we use terrestrial LiDAR surveys every two weeks spanning wet …

Quantifying leaf phenology of individual trees and species in a tropical forest using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images

JY Park, HC Muller-Landau, JW Lichstein, SW Rifai… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tropical forests exhibit complex but poorly understood patterns of leaf phenology.
Understanding species-and individual-level phenological patterns in tropical forests …

[HTML][HTML] Individual tree crown delineation in a highly diverse tropical forest using very high resolution satellite images

FH Wagner, MP Ferreira, A Sanchez, MCM Hirye… - ISPRS journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mapping tropical tree species at landscape scales to provide information for ecologists and
forest managers is a new challenge for the remote sensing community. For this purpose …

Vulnerability of Amazonian forests to repeated droughts

LO Anderson, G Ribeiro Neto… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Extreme droughts have been recurrent in the Amazon over the past decades, causing socio-
economic and environmental impacts. Here, we investigate the vulnerability of Amazonian …