IPAM, the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, is a non-governmental and non-profit organization created in May 1995, in Belém, State of Pará, Brazil. It is one of the most influential and authoritative environmental think-tanks in Brazil and Latin America, with both national and international recognition due to the quality and relevance of its projects, products and scientific papers. Our mission is to provide science, education and innovation for an Amazon with a healthy environment, developed economy and social equity
Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin‐wide Amazon forest plot data?
Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin‐wide Amazon forest plot data?
Positive aboveground biomass trends have been reported from old‐growth forests across the Amazon basin and hypothesized to reflect a large‐scale response to exterior forcing. The result could, however, be an artefact due to a sampling bias induced by the nature of...