Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin

Part I. Introduction

1. Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere, and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin: An Introduction
Laszlo Nagy, Paulo Artaxo, Bruce R. Forsberg

Part II. Biosphere–Atmosphere Interactions

2. Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds in Amazonian Forest Ecosystems
Kolby Jardine, Angela Jardine

3. The Hydrology and Energy Balance of the Amazon Basin
Michael T. Coe, Marcia N. Macedo, Paulo M. Brando, Paul Lefebvre, Prajjwal Panday, Divino Silvério

4. Extreme Seasonal Climate Variations in the Amazon Basin: Droughts and Floods
José A. Marengo, Earle R. Williams, Lincloln M. Alves, Wagner R. Soares, Daniel A. Rodriguez

Part III. Carbon Balance

5. The Amazon Carbon Balance: An Evaluation of Methods and Results
John Grace

6. Climate and the Amazonian Carbon Balance
Emanuel Gloor

7. Aquatic Ecosystems
John M. Melack

8. Ecosystem–Atmosphere Exchanges of CO2 in Dense and Open ‘Terra Firme’ Rainforests in Brazilian Amazonia
Alessandro C. Araújo, Celso Randow, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe

9. Overview of Forest Carbon Stocks Study in Amazonas State, Brazil
Niro Higuchi, Rempei Suwa, Francisco G. Higuchi, Adriano J. N. Lima, Joaquim Santos, Hideyuki Noguchi, Takuya Kajimoto, Moriyoshi Ishizuka

Part IV. Environmental Variation and Global Change

10. Recent Changes in Amazon Forest Biomass and Dynamics
Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis, Niro Higuchi, Tim Baker

11. The Biogeochemistry of the Main Forest Vegetation Types in Amazonia
Erika Buscardo, Gabriela Nardoto, Flávio Luizão, Maria T. F. Piedade, Jochen Schöngart, Florian Wittmann, Christopher E. Doughty, Carlos A. Quesada, Laszlo Nagy

12. Soil–Vegetation Interactions in Amazonia
Carlos A. Quesada, Jon Lloyd

13. Fires in Amazonia
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Liana O. Anderson, André Lima, Egidio Arai

14. Modelling Amazonian Carbon Budgets and Vegetation Dynamics in a Changing Climate
Bart Kruijt, Patrick Meir, Michelle Johnson, Anja Rammig, Sophie Fauset, Tim Baker, David Galbraith, Celso Randow, Hans Verbeeck

Part V. Integrating Considerations Between Biophysical and Social Aspects

15. Land Use, Land Cover and Land Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon (1960–2013)
Jean P. Ometto, Eráclito R. Sousa-Neto, Graciela Tejada

16. The Impact of Land Use on Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Brazilian Amazonia: Implications for Policy
Philip Fearnside

17. An Amazonian Forest and Its Fragments as a Laboratory of Global Change
William F. Laurance, José L. C. Camargo, Philip M. Fearnside, Thomas E. Lovejoy, G. Bruce Williamson, Rita C. G. Mesquita, Christoph F. J. Meyer, Paulo E. D. Bobrowiec, Susan G. W. Laurance

18. The Socioecological Implications of Land Use and Landscape Change in the Brazilian Amazon
Ima C. G. Vieira, Peter M. Toledo, S. O. Araújo Roberto

Part VI. Perspectives for the Future

19. Amazonia in Perspective as a Changing Environment
Paulo Artaxo, Bruce R. Forsberg, Laszlo Nagy

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