A drought in the southwestern basin reverses the carbon sink

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Anomalously warm tropical North Atlantic sea surface temperatures displace the rain belt north and leave the western and southwestern Amazon without its wet season. Rivers fall to record lows, fire escapes into standing forest, and the RAINFOR permanent plot network - already measuring the same trees before the drought - records the forest switching from a net carbon sink to a net source.

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Amazon RainforestNature

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Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest

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The 2005 Amazon Droughtconcerns
Amazon Basinconcerns

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