@Article{SennaCostDaviNobr:2014:MoImNe,
               author = "Senna, M{\^o}nica C. A. and Costa, Marcos H. and Davidson, Eric 
                         A. and Nobre, Carlos A.",
          affiliation = "{Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)} and {Universidade Federal 
                         de Vi{\c{c}}osa (UFV)} and {The Woods Hole Research Center} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Modeling the impact of net primary production dynamics on 
                         post-disturbance Amazon savannization",
              journal = "Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ci{\^e}ncias",
                 year = "2014",
               volume = "86",
               number = "2",
                pages = "621--632",
             keywords = "Amazon, climate, deforestation, ecosystem model, net primary 
                         production, savannization.",
             abstract = "Amazon tropical forests are being replaced by pasturelands and 
                         croplands, but they sometimes revert to regrowth forest when 
                         abandoned after a period of agricultural use. Research suggests 
                         that this secondary regrowth is limited by climate and nutrient 
                         availability and, using a coupled biosphere-atmosphere model, we 
                         investigated patterns in the regrowth of the Amazon rainforest 
                         after a full deforestation event, considering different types of 
                         nutrient stress. We found that, over a 50 year regrowth period, 
                         the reduction of precipitation caused by large-scale deforestation 
                         was not sufficient to prevent secondary forest regrowth, but this 
                         decrease in precipitation combined with nutrient limitation, due 
                         to logging and frequent fires, did indeed prevent forest regrowth 
                         in central and southern Amazonia, leading to a savannization. 
                         These results are concerning, as the northern Mato Grosso region 
                         has the highest clearing rate in Amazonia. The low resilience of 
                         the forest under nutrient stress indicates that a large scale 
                         disturbance could greatly expand the area suitable for cropland, 
                         accelerating forest disappearance.",
                  doi = "10.1590/0001-37652014108212",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-37652014108212",
                 issn = "0001-3765",
                label = "scopus 2014-07 SennaCostDaviNobr:2014:MoImNe",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "0001-3765-aabc-86-02-621.pdf",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-37652014108212",
        urlaccessdate = "19 abr. 2024"
}