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Daniel C. Nepstad
Researcher at Woods Hole Research Center
Publications - 134
Citations - 25119
Daniel C. Nepstad is an academic researcher from Woods Hole Research Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deforestation & Amazon rainforest. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 134 publications receiving 23334 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniel C. Nepstad include Federal University of Pará.
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Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.
Oliver L. Phillips,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Simon L. Lewis,Joshua B. Fisher,Jon Lloyd,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Yadvinder Malhi,Abel Monteagudo,Julie Peacock,Carlos A. Quesada,Geertjer Van Der Heijden,Samuel Almeida,Iêda Leão do Amaral,Luzmila Arroyo,Gerardo Aymard,Timothy R. Baker,Olaf Bánki,Lilian Blanc,Damien Bonal,Paulo M. Brando,Jérôme Chave,Atila Alves de Oliveira,Nallaret Davila Cardozo,Claudia I. Czimczik,Ted R. Feldpausch,Maria Aparecida Freitas,Emanuel Gloor,Niro Higuchi,E. M. Jimenez,Gareth Lloyd,Patrick Meir,Casimiro Mendoza,Alexandra C. Morel,David A. Neill,Daniel C. Nepstad,Sandra Patiño,M. C. Peñuela,Adriana Prieto,Fredy Ramírez,Michael P. Schwarz,Javier Silva,Marcos Silveira,Anne Sota Thomas,Hans ter Steege,Juliana Stropp,Rodolfo Vasquez,Przemyslaw Zelazowski,Esteban Alvarez Dávila,Sandy J. Andelman,Ana Andrade,Kuo-Jung Chao,Terry L. Erwin,Anthony Di Fiore,C Eurídice Honorio,Helen C. Keeling,Timothy J. Killeen,William F. Laurance,Antonio Peña Cruz,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Percy Núñez Vargas,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,Agustín Rudas,Rafael Salamão,Natalino Silva,John Terborgh,Armando Torres-Lezama +65 more
TL;DR: Records from multiple long-term monitoring plots across Amazonia are used to assess forest responses to the intense 2005 drought, a possible analog of future events that may accelerate climate change through carbon losses and changed surface energy balances.
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The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures
Daniel C. Nepstad,Cláudio José Reis de Carvalho,Eric A. Davidson,Peter H. Jipp,Peter H. Jipp,Paul Lefebvre,Gustavo Hees de Negreiros,Elson D. da Silva,Thomas A. Stone,Susan E. Trumbore,Simone Aparecida Vieira +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate that half of the closed forests of Brazilian Amazonia depend on deep root systems to maintain green canopies during the dry season, and as much as 15% of this deep-soil carbon turns over on annual or decadal timescales.
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Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire
Daniel C. Nepstad,Adalberto Verssimo,Ane Alencar,Carlos A. Nobre,Eirivelthon Lima,Paul Lefebvre,Peter Schlesinger,Christopher Potter,Paulo Moutinho,Elsa Mendoza,Mark A. Cochrane,Vanessa Brooks +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present field surveys of wood mills and forest burning across Brazilian Amazonia which show that logging crews severely damage 10,000 to 15,000 km2 of forest that are not included in deforestation mapping programmes.
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Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin
Britaldo Soares-Filho,Daniel C. Nepstad,Daniel C. Nepstad,Lisa M. Curran,Gustavo C. Cerqueira,Ricardo Alexandrino Garcia,Claudia Azevedo Ramos,Eliane Voll,Alice McDonald,Paul Lefebvre,Peter Schlesinger +10 more
TL;DR: It is reported that protected areas in the Amazon basin—the central feature of prevailing conservation approaches—are an important but insufficient component of this strategy, based on policy-sensitive simulations of future deforestation.
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The 2010 Amazon Drought
Simon L. Lewis,Paulo M. Brando,Oliver L. Phillips,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Daniel C. Nepstad +4 more
TL;DR: A decade of satellite-derived rainfall data is analyzed to compare both the 2010 and 2005 drought in Amazonia and predict the impact of the 2010 drought as 2.2 × 1015 grams of carbon, largely longer-term committed emissions from drought-induced tree deaths.