Amazon Forests Green-Up During 2005 Drought

By Scott Saleska, K. Didan, Alfredo R. Huete, H. D. da Rocha. Science, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Global gross primary productivity and water use efficiency changes under drought stress (2017, background): “Similar results were also reported by Saleska et al (2007) which revealed intact forest canopy ‘greenness’ was increased under drought stress.”
Review and classification of indicators of green water availability and scarcity (2015, background): “Saleska et al. (2007) Percent of Average Seasonal Greenness PASG SG SG ×100% SG= seasonal greenness, defined as accumulated NDVI above background NDVI during a specified period.”
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): unforeseen successes in animal ecology (2011, background): “Saleska et al. (2007) demonstrated that reduced rainfall resulted in satellite-based primary productivity estimates that are higher than observed values during the wet season in a South American wet tropical region.”
Relationship Between Remotely-sensed Vegetation Indices, Canopy Attributes and Plant Physiological Processes: What Vegetation Indices Can and Cannot Tell Us About the Landscape (2008, methodology): “A recent successful example of the combined approach was the use of flux tower and MODIS EVI data in the Amazon to show that ET and GPP increased, rather than decreased, in response to seasonal or interannual dry periods, contrary to model results [66,67].”
The variation of apparent crown size and canopy heterogeneity across lowland Amazonian forests (2010, background): “Attempts to produce non-saturating vegetation indices (e.g. an enhanced vegetation index) with MODIS data exist, but the results obtained, for instance concerning the temporal variation of the indices, remain difficult to interpret (Huete et al., 2006; Myneni et al., 2007; Saleska et al., 2007).”
Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point (2008, background): “Nearly half of the forests of the Amazon maintain full leaf canopies during dry seasons that range from three to five months, indicating a high tolerance of drought (Nepstad et al. 1994; Myneni et al. 2007; Saleska et al. 2007).”
Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm (2016, background): “In fact, the ability of some areas of the Amazon rainforest to maintain high ET rates and, eventually, keep growing or begin leaf flushing (108) during the dry season does not guarantee that humid forest could be resilient to extreme and prolonged droughts.”