I. Foster Brown

TL;DR: Signs of a transition to a disturbance-dominated regime include changing energy and water cycles in the southern and eastern portions of the Amazon basin.

TL;DR: In 2005, large sections of southwestern Amazonia experienced one of the most intense droughts of the last hundred years, which severely affected human population along the main channel of the Amazon River and its western and southwestern tributaries, the Solimoes and the Madeira Rivers, respectively as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the diameter, bole and canopy heights of 474 trees covering a total of 1 ha (10 000 m2) in the Ecological Station of the Samuel Hydroelectric Reservoir in Rondonia (845′S, 63°23′W).

TL;DR: Based on size distribution and growth rate differences in the three sites, it is predicted that trees in the Manaus forest have greater mean age than those of the other two forests (~140 years), and initial estimates of the C balance suggests that live wood biomass is at near steady-state in Manaus, but accumulating at about 1.5 Mg C ha−1 at the other three sites.

TL;DR: In the state of Acre, Brazil, hot spot counts from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA)-12 sensor had exceeded the number for all of 2004, and anecdotal reports of fires escaping control and invading forests became frequent as mentioned in this paper.