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Amazon
The weather in the Amazon is more often dry nowadays and when it is, the world's biggest rainforest produces vast quantities of CO2. This may be the forest's death warrant, with serious consequences for climate. Wageningen researchers see both signs of stress and a surprising degree of resilience.
A lot of water combined with heat and sunlight provide ideal conditions for luxuriant plant growth. This becomes apparent when rain suddenly becomes scarce, as it did in 2005, 2010 and 2015. The vegetation grew at a slower pace and there were more forest fires.
The forest remains a tropical rainforest
Drought causes problems for trees and other plants which are used to a humid environment. The crowns of trees thin out and some trees die off completely. The response of forests to more frequent droughts is surprising: the forest may change in the composition of species present but it remains tropical rainforest, with more or less the same amount of biomass and of sequestrated CO2.
Research chair group Meteorology and Air Quality
Ingrid van der Laan-Luijkx, assistant professor at the Meteorology and Air Quality chair group, can see such effects from Wageningen by studying the air quality above the Amazon. Van der Laan's lab is working with Brazilian researchers who take regular air samples from a small plane at different altitudes above the Amazon.
Want to know more?
- What will the Amazon do? Wageningen World, 2016-4
- Regional atmospheric CO2 inversion reveals seasonal and geographic differences in Amazon net biome exchange, Global Change Biology, 28 April 2016
- Collecting air above the Amazon. Resource, 12 Feb 2015
News about the Amazon
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04 January 2024
'Stickiness' of rarity and the universal dance of dominance
- In a revelatory exploration of biodiversity, a recent study has exposed the universal principles governing the dominance and rarity of species across... -
25 September 2023
How textural features can improve SAR-based tropical forest disturbance mapping
- An article of Johannes Balling, Martin Herold and Johannes Reiche: How textural features can improve SAR-based tropical forest disturbance mapping,... -
17 August 2023
New research reveals global plastic pollution patterns in river basins
- Plastic pollution in the world's oceans is a critical environmental issue that demands urgent attention. A recent study published in Nature... -
14 July 2023
High Brazilian award for regional manager Ria Hulsman
- It is not often that Dutch nationals receive a prestigious foreign award. On Tuesday 4 July 2023, this honour befell Ria Hulsman, regional manager for... -
08 May 2023
Collections in the spotlight: Flowers of the Brazilian forest
- In the Collection in the Spotlight series, we’re taking a closer look at exciting databases and hidden gems in our collections. This month,...
Projects about the Amazon
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The environmental sensitivity of plant and animal populations
My research activities have included studies in tropical, temperate and arctic regions, and involved trees and fishes. Across these biomes and... -
Oil palm agroforestry in theBrazilian Amazon
The study aims to assess the potential for - and factors underlying - scaling of oil palm agroforestry by examining its social, ecological and... -
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Optimizing plant based protein yield and quality in the post-harvest chain
To prevent worldwide protein shortages it is important to optimize the recovery methods of proteins from new plant based biomass sources. The effects... -
The role of aquatic-terrestrial coupling in the resilience of Amazonian floodplain forests to fire (Brazil)
Publications about the Amazon
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In situ short-term responses of Amazonian understory plants to elevated CO2
Damasceno, Amanda Rayane , Garcia, Sabrina , Aleixo, Izabela Fonseca , Menezes, Juliane Cristina Gomes , Pereira, Iokanam Sales , De Kauwe, Martin G. , Ferrer, Vanessa Rodrigues , Fleischer, Katrin , Grams, Thorsten E.E. , Guedes, Alacimar V. , Hartley, Iain Paul , Kruijt, Bart , Lugli, Laynara Figueiredo , Martins, Nathielly Pires , Norby, Richard J. , Pires-Santos, Julyane Stephanie , Portela, Bruno Takeshi Tanaka , Rammig, Anja , de Oliveira, Leonardo Ramos , Santana, Flávia Delgado , Santos, Yago Rodrigues , de Souza, Crisvaldo Cássio Silva , Ushida, Gabriela , Lapola, David Montenegro , Quesada, Carlos Alberto Nobre , Domingues, Tomas Ferreira Plant Cell and Environment (2024), Volume: 47, Issue: 5 - ISSN 0140-7791 - p. 1865-1876. -
Panarchy to explore land use : a historical case study from the Peruvian Amazon
Lagneaux, Elisabeth G. , Callo-Concha, Daniel , Speelman, Erika N. , Descheemaeker, Katrien Sustainability Science (2024) - ISSN 1862-4065 -
Solar spectral irradiance measurements above and in-canopy (SLOCS and CloudRoots Amazonia, 2022)
Mol, Wouter B. , Janssens, Martin , Hartogensis, Oscar , Heusinkveld, Bert G. , Snellen, Henk , van Heerwaarden, Chiel C. -
State of Wildfires 2023-24
Jones, M.W. , Kelley, D.I. , Burton, C.A. , Di Giuseppe, F. , Barbosa, M.L.F. , Brambleby, E. , Hartley, A.J. , Lombardi, A. , Mataveli, G. , McNorton, J.R. , Spuler, F.R. , Wessel, J.B. , Abatzoglou, J.T. , Anderson, L.O. , Andela, N. , Archibald, S. , Armenteras, D. , Burke, E. , Carmenta, R. , Chuvieco, E. , Clarke, H. , Doerr, S.H. , Fernandes, P.M. , Giglio, L. , Hamilton, D.S. , Hantson, Stijn , Harris, S. , Jain, P. , Kolden, C.A. , Kurvits, T. , Lampe, S. , Meier, S. , New, S. , Parrington, M. , Perron, M.M.G. , Qu, Y. , Ribeiro, N.S. , Saharjo, B.H. , San-Miguel-Ayanz, J. , Shuman, J.K. , Tanpipat, V. , van der Werf, Guido R. , Veraverbeke, S. , Xanthopoulos, G. -
Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities
Luize, Bruno Garcia , Bauman, David , ter Steege, Hans , Palma-Silva, Clarisse , do Amaral, Iêda Leão , de Souza Coelho, Luiz , de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia , de Andrade Lima Filho, Diógenes , Salomão, Rafael P. , Wittmann, Florian , Castilho, Carolina V. , de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo , Guevara, Juan Ernesto , Phillips, Oliver L. , Magnusson, William E. , Sabatier, Daniel , Revilla, Juan David Cardenas , Molino, Jean François , Irume, Mariana Victória , Martins, Maria Pires , da Silva Guimarães, José Renan , Ramos, José Ferreira , Bánki, Olaf S. , Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez , López, Dairon Cárdenas , Pitman, Nigel C.A. , Demarchi, Layon O. , Schöngart, Jochen , de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia Moraes , Vargas, Percy Núñez , Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire , Venticinque, Eduardo Martins , Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto , Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa , Terborgh, John , Casula, Katia Regina , Honorio Coronado, Euridice N. , Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo , Montero, Juan Carlos , Costa, Flávia R.C. , Feldpausch, Ted R. , Quaresma, Adriano Costa , Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño , Zartman, Charles Eugene , Killeen, Timothy J. , Marimon, Beatriz S. , Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur , Vasquez, Rodolfo , Mostacedo, Bonifacio , Assis, Rafael L. , Baraloto, Chris , do Amaral, Dário Dantas , Engel, Julien , Petronelli, Pascal , Castellanos, Hernán , de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante , Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni , Andrade, Ana , Camargo, José Luís , Laurance, William F. , Laurance, Susan G.W. , Rincón, Lorena Maniguaje , Schietti, Juliana , Sousa, Thaiane R. , de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle , Lopes, Maria Aparecida , Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima , Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça , de Queiroz, Helder Lima , Aymard C, Gerardo A. , Brienen, Roel , Stevenson, Pablo R. , Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro , Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat , Baker, Tim R. , Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira , Mogollón, Hugo F. , Duivenvoorden, Joost F. , Peres, Carlos A. , Silman, Miles R. , Ferreira, Leandro Valle , Lozada, José Rafael , Comiskey, James A. , de Toledo, José Julio , Damasco, Gabriel , Dávila, Nállarett , Draper, Freddie C. , García-Villacorta, Roosevelt , Lopes, Aline , Vicentini, Alberto , Valverd, Fernando Cornejo , Alonso, Alfonso , Arroyo, Luzmila , Dallmeier, Francisco , Gomes, Vitor H.F. , Jimenez, Eliana M. , Neill, David , Mora, Maria Cristina Peñuela , Noronha, Janaína Costa , de Aguiar, Daniel P.P. , Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues , Bredin, Yennie K. , de Sá Carpanedo, Rainiellen , Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes , de Souza, Fernanda Coelho , Feeley, Kenneth J. , Gribel, Rogerio , Haugaasen, Torbjørn , Hawes, Joseph E. , Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti , Paredes, Marcos Ríos , de Jesus Rodrigues, Domingos , Barlow, Jos , Berenguer, Erika , da Silva, Izaias Brasil , Ferreira, Maria Julia , Ferreira, Joice , Fine, Paul V.A. , Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro , Levis, Carolina , Licona, Juan Carlos , Zegarra, Boris Eduardo Villa , Vos, Vincent Antoine , Cerón, Carlos , Durgante, Flávia Machado , Fonty, Émile , Henkel, Terry W. , Householder, John Ethan , Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau , Silveira, Marcos , Stropp, Juliana , Thomas, Raquel , Daly, Doug , Millike, William , Molina, Guido Pardo , Pennington, Toby , Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães , Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss , Campelo, Wegliane , Fuentes, Alfredo , Klitgaard, Bente , Pena, José Luis Marcelo , Tello, J.S. , Vriesendorp, Corine , Chave, Jerome , Di Fiore, Anthony , Hilário, Renato Richard , de Oliveira Pereira, Luciana , Phillips, Juan Fernando , Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo , van Andel, Tinde R. , von Hildebrand, Patricio , Balee, William , Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques , de Matos Bonates, Luiz Carlos , Doza, Hilda Paulette Dávila , Gómez, Ricardo Zárate , Gonzales, Therany , Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo , Hoffman, Bruce , Junqueira, André Braga , Malhi, Yadvinder , de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula , Pinto, Linder Felipe Mozombite , Prieto, Adriana , Rudas, Agustín , Ruschel, Ademir R. , Silva, Natalino , Vela, César I.A. , Zent, Stanford , Zent, Egleé L. , Cano, Angela , Márquez, Yrma Andreina Carrero , Correa, Diego F. , Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa , Flores, Bernardo Monteiro , Galbraith, David , Holmgren, Milena , Kalamandeen, Michelle , Lobo, Guilherme , Montenegro, Luis Torres , Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade , Oliveira, Alexandre A. , Pombo, Maihyra Marina , Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma , Rocha, Maira , Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni , Umaña, Maria Natalia , van der Heijden, Geertje , Torre, Emilio Vilanova , Reategui, Manuel Augusto Ahuite , Baider, Cláudia , Balslev, Henrik , Cárdenas, Sasha , Casas, Luisa Fernanda , Farfan-Rios, William , Ferreira, Cid , Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo , Mendoza, Casimiro , Mesones, Italo , Parada, Germaine Alexander , Torres-Lezama, Armando , Giraldo, Ligia Estela Urrego , Villarroel, Daniel , Zagt, Roderick , Alexiades, Miguel N. , de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida , Garcia-Cabrera, Karina , Hernandez, Lionel , Cuenca, Walter Palacios , Pansini, Susamar , Pauletto, Daniela , Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez , Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe , Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H. , Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela , Dexter, Kyle G. Journal of Biogeography (2024), Volume: 51, Issue: 7 - ISSN 0305-0270 - p. 1163-1184. -
Integrating satellite-based forest disturbance alerts improves detection timeliness and confidence
Reiche, Johannes , Balling, Johannes , Hudson Pickens, Amy , Masolele, Robert , Berger, Anika , Weisse, Mikaela , Mannarino, Daniel , Gou, Yaqing , Slagter, Bart , Donchyts, Gennadii , Carter, Sarah Environmental Research Letters (2024), Volume: 19, Issue: 5 - ISSN 1748-9326 -
One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains
Householder, John Ethan , Wittmann, Florian , Schöngart, Jochen , Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez , Junk, Wolfgang J. , Latrubesse, Edgardo Manuel , Quaresma, Adriano Costa , Demarchi, Layon O. , de S. Lobo, Guilherme , de Aguiar, Daniel P.P. , Assis, Rafael L. , Lopes, Aline , Parolin, Pia , Leão do Amaral, Iêda , de Souza Coelho, Luiz , de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia , de Andrade Lima Filho, Diógenes , Salomão, Rafael P. , Castilho, Carolina V. , Guevara-Andino, Juan Ernesto , de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo , Phillips, Oliver L. , Cárdenas López, Dairon , Magnusson, William E. , Sabatier, Daniel , Revilla, Juan David Cardenas , Molino, Jean François , Irume, Mariana Victória , Martins, Maria Pires , da Silva Guimarães, José Renan , Ramos, José Ferreira , de Jesus Rodrigues, Domingos , Bánki, Olaf S. , Peres, Carlos A. , Pitman, Nigel C.A. , Hawes, Joseph E. , Almeida, Everton José , Barbosa, Luciane Ferreira , Cavalheiro, Larissa , dos Santos, Márcia Cléia Vilela , Luize, Bruno Garcia , de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia Moraes , Núñez Vargas, Percy , Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire , Venticinque, Eduardo Martins , Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto , Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa , Terborgh, John , Casula, Katia Regina , Costa, Flávia R.C. , Honorio Coronado, Euridice N. , Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel , Montero, Juan Carlos , Feldpausch, Ted R. , Aymard C, Gerardo A. , Baraloto, Chris , Castaño Arboleda, Nicolás , Engel, Julien , Petronelli, Pascal , Zartman, Charles Eugene , Killeen, Timothy J. , Rincón, Lorena Maniguaje , Marimon, Beatriz S. , Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur , Schietti, Juliana , Sousa, Thaiane R. , Vasquez, Rodolfo , Mostacedo, Bonifacio , Dantas do Amaral, Dário , Castellanos, Hernán , Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo , Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni , Andrade, Ana , Camargo, José Luís , Laurance, William F. , Laurance, Susan G.W. , de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle , Lopes, Maria Aparecida , Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima , Mendonça Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo , Lima de Queiroz, Helder , Brienen, Roel , Stevenson, Pablo R. , Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro , Baker, Tim R. , Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat , Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira , Mogollón, Hugo F. , Noronha, Janaína Costa , Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues , de Sá Carpanedo, Rainiellen , Duivenvoorden, Joost F. , Silman, Miles R. , Ferreira, Leandro Valle , Levis, Carolina , Lozada, José Rafael , Comiskey, James A. , Draper, Freddie C. , de Toledo, José Julio , Damasco, Gabriel , Dávila, Nállarett , García-Villacorta, Roosevelt , Vicentini, Alberto , Cornejo Valverde, Fernando , Alonso, Alfonso , Arroyo, Luzmila , Dallmeier, Francisco , Gomes, Vitor H.F. , Jimenez, Eliana M. , Neill, David , Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina , Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes , Coelho de Souza, Fernanda , Feeley, Kenneth J. , Gribel, Rogerio , Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti , Ríos Paredes, Marcos , Barlow, Jos , Berenguer, Erika , Dexter, Kyle G. , Ferreira, Joice , Fine, Paul V.A. , Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro , Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau , Licona, Juan Carlos , Pennington, Toby , Villa Zegarra, Boris Eduardo , Vos, Vincent Antoine , Cerón, Carlos , Fonty, Émile , Henkel, Terry W. , Maas, Paul , Pos, Edwin , Silveira, Marcos , Stropp, Juliana , Thomas, Raquel , Daly, Doug , Milliken, William , Pardo Molina, Guido , Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães , Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss , Campelo, Wegliane , Emilio, Thaise , Fuentes, Alfredo , Klitgaard, Bente , Marcelo Pena, José Luis , Souza, Priscila F. , Tello, J.S. , Vriesendorp, Corine , Chave, Jerome , Di Fiore, Anthony , Hilário, Renato Richard , de Oliveira Pereira, Luciana , Phillips, Juan Fernando , Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo , van Andel, Tinde R. , von Hildebrand, Patricio , Balee, William , Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques , de Matos Bonates, Luiz Carlos , Doza, Hilda Paulette Dávila , Gómez, Ricardo Zárate , Gonzales, Therany , Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo , Hoffman, Bruce , Junqueira, André Braga , Malhi, Yadvinder , de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula , Mozombite-Pinto, Linder Felipe , Prieto, Adriana , Rudas, Agustín , Ruschel, Ademir R. , Silva, Natalino , Vela, César I.A. , Zent, Stanford , Zent, Egleé L. , Cano, Angela , Carrero Márquez, Yrma Andreina , Correa, Diego F. , Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa , Flores, Bernardo Monteiro , Galbraith, David , Holmgren, Milena , Kalamandeen, Michelle , Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade , Oliveira, Alexandre A. , Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma , Rocha, Maira , Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni , Sierra, Rodrigo , Tirado, Milton , Umaña, Maria Natalia , van der Heijden, Geertje , Vilanova Torre, Emilio , Ahuite Reategui, Manuel Augusto , Baider, Cláudia , Balslev, Henrik , Cárdenas, Sasha , Casas, Luisa Fernanda , Farfan-Rios, William , Ferreira, Cid , Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo , Mendoza, Casimiro , Mesones, Italo , Parada, Germaine Alexander , Torres-Lezama, Armando , Urrego Giraldo, Ligia Estela , Villarroel, Daniel , Zagt, Roderick , Alexiades, Miguel N. , de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida , Garcia-Cabrera, Karina , Hernandez, Lionel , Palacios Cuenca, Walter , Pansini, Susamar , Pauletto, Daniela , Ramirez Arevalo, Freddy , Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe , Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H. , Valenzuela Gamarra, Luis , ter Steege, Hans Nature Ecology and Evolution (2024), Volume: 8, Issue: 5 - ISSN 2397-334X - p. 901-911. -
Biological soil health indicators are sensitive to shade tree management in a young cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) production system
Visscher, Anna M. , Chavez, Eduardo , Caicedo, Carlos , Tinoco, Leider , Pulleman, Mirjam Geoderma Regional (2024), Volume: 37 - ISSN 2352-0094 -
Shifting cultivation in decline : An analysis of soil fertility and weed pressure in intensified cropping systems in Eastern Amazon
Abrell, Thomas , Naudin, Krishna , Bianchi, Felix J.J.A. , Aragao, Debora Veiga , Tittonell, Pablo , Corbeels, Marc Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (2024), Volume: 360 - ISSN 0167-8809 -
Global disparity of camera trap research allocation and defaunation risk of terrestrial mammals
Mugerwa, Badru , Niedballa, Jürgen , Planillo, Aimara , Sheil, Douglas , Kramer‐schadt, Stephanie , Wilting, Andreas Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (2024), Volume: 10, Issue: 1 - ISSN 2056-3485 - p. 121-136.