Michel Nobre Muza

TL;DR: Maintaining forest ecosystem integrity may require significant strengthening of forest conservation on private property, which can in part be accomplished by leveraging existing policy mechanisms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a network of eddy covariance towers in Brazil coupled with ancillary measurements to address two main questions: first, how do mechanisms of water supply (indicated by root depth and groundwater) and vegetation water demand (defined by stomatal conductance and intrinsic water use efficiency) control evapotranspiration (E) along broad gradients of climate and vegetation from equatorial Amazonia to Cerrado, and how do these inferred mechanisms of supply and demand compare to those employed by a suite of ecosystem models?

TL;DR: The LBA Data Model Intercomparison Project (LBA-DMIP) uses a comprehensive data set from an observational network of flux towers across the Amazon, and an ecosystem modeling community engaged in ongoing studies using a suite of different land surface and terrestrial ecosystem models to understand Amazon forest function.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the inter-annual variability of simulations of 21 different land surface model formulations, driven by meteorological conditions measured at 8 flux towers, located in rain forest, forest-savanna ecotone and pasture sites in Amazonia, and one in savanna site in Southeastern Brazil.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the Irani River in the municipality of Chapeco in southern Brazil and identified the relationship between the vegetation cover of the Amazon, Pantanal, and Mata Atlântica Biomes with data from a fluviometric station West of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil.