Moist tropical forests in Amazonia and elsewhere are subjected to increasingly severe drought episodes through the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and possibly through deforestation-driven reductions in rainfall. The effects of this trend on tropical forest canopy dynamics, emissions of greenhouse gases, and other ecological functions are potentially large but poorly understood. We established a throughfall exclusion experiment in an east-central Amazon forest (Tapajo´s National Forest, Brazil) to help understand these effects.
IPAM @ COP 15
This report briefly describes the activities performed by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), during the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), occurred between the 7th and 19th of December 2009, in Copenhagen, Denmark.