Neste relatório, o IPAM apresenta resultados de ações que fizeram a diferença para as populações indígenas e comunidades tradicionais, para pequenos e grandes produtores, para a proteção de áreas protegidas, combate a mudanças climáticas, fim do desmatamento e cooperações internacionais para preservação das florestas no país.
Threshold Responses to Soil Moisture Deficit by Trees and Soil in Tropical Rain Forests: Insights from Field Experiments
Threshold Responses to Soil Moisture Deficit by Trees and Soil in Tropical Rain Forests: Insights from Field Experiments
Many tropical rain forest regions are at risk of increased future drought. The net effects of drought on forest ecosystem functioning will be substantial if important ecological thresholds are passed. However, understanding and predicting these effects is challenging using observational studies alone. Field-based rainfall exclusion (canopy throughfall exclusion; TFE) experiments can offer mechanistic insight into the response to extended or severe drought and can be used to help improve model-based simulations, which are currently inadequate.