[PDF] Top 20 Carbon stocks in a tropical dry forest in Brazil

... RESUMO - As florestas secas são amplamente distribuídas nos trópicos, e estudos que visam quantificar o estoque de carbono nessas florestas são importantes para que possa ser quantificada sua participação como mitigadora ... See full document

... results in immediate mas- sive C fluxes to the atmosphere due to drainage, deforestation and burning followed by longer-term oxidative losses contin- gent on hydrological conditions (Hooijer et ...peat ... See full document

... plots in the selectively logged forest of the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment in June ...layer in each plot were pooled for subsequent soil analysis to include site ...to dry in ... See full document

... levels in a 28-year-old rubber tree plantation were 20 % higher than those in a 15-year-old abandoned pasture, and 5 % lower than those found in a primary tropical ...sequestration in ... See full document

... often in the multi-million hectare range, are fast advanc- ing in the REDD+ development process, and they are a key steppingstone toward international REDD+ implementation (Herold and Skutsch, ... See full document

... variation in carbon stocks exist throughout most tropical ...gradients in riparian vegetation, mesoscale variation in canopy cover, and large-scale controls such as elevation, ... See full document

... and, in addition, to detoxifying the substrates used as food. The flies, in turn, disperse these microorganisms in the ecosystem (Morais and Rosa ...mutualistic in the nests of Ptilotrigona ... See full document

... shown in Figure ...the dry season, a typical characteristic situation for these vegetation types and the weather hot and dry, which require biological strategies for ...-1 in the ... See full document

... and forest degradation. Consequently, levels of carbon stock are affected in different parts of same forest ...lies in exploring the extent of the effects on level of carbon ... See full document

... variations in solar intensity and exposure are a determining factor in the composition of the endophytic fungal ...radiation in semiarid regions, such as the Caatinga forest in ... See full document

... reported in de Carvalho et ...for Brazil. Musca domestica was the only common species in all studies, providing evidence for its previously known eusynanthropic behaviour (Ferrar et ...important ... See full document

... diversity in the region, due to destructive practices in land use and in the collection of natural ...arguments in behalf of conservation of tropical forests ...obtained in this ... See full document

... performed in two areas in the State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil (Figure 1) differentiated mostly by size, vegetation cover, rainfall pattern and land use, and separated from each other by ... See full document

... significant carbon sinks and their soils’ carbon storage potential is ...organic carbon (SOC) stocks of tropical mountain areas whose complex soil-landscape and difficult accessibility ... See full document

... stored in plastic bags and taken to the Federal University of Lavras Soil Analysis Laboratory (Laboratório de Análise de Solos da Universidade Federal de Lavras), where the following variables were measured: pH ... See full document

... disturbed forest, is, in general, slow and depends upon the intensity of the disturbance and the surrounding ...areas in humid tropical forest in the Venezuelan amazon to attain ... See full document

... seasonally dry tropical forest in Serra do Cipó, ...identified in much of southeastern Brazil’s ...Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest (SDTF) located in the ... See full document

... out in separate field campaigns. In the first design (“survey”), 222 locations were chosen by tacit knowledge for the purpose of soil survey, comprising 44 deep pits (>1 m), 83 shallow pits (<1 m), ... See full document

... rich in species around the word and the latest global richness estimates the existence between 21,000 to 211,000 species, with an average of 132,930 species (Espírito-Santo & Fernandes ...2007). In Bra- ... See full document

... sequestration in agroforestry systems plays an important role in climate change ...the carbon storage capacity for the environmental stability. In systems of more than 20 years, the potential ... See full document