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LBA-IGBP SYNTHESIS VOLUME Amazonia and the Earth System Editors Pedro Dias John Gash Michael Keller. 4 Themes. People Air Land Water. People PartA2. The Changing Rate and Pattern of Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia
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LBA-IGBP SYNTHESIS VOLUME Amazonia and the Earth System EditorsPedro DiasJohn GashMichael Keller
4 Themes • People • Air • Land • Water
People • PartA2. The Changing Rate and Pattern of Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia • PartA3. Selective Logging and its relation to Deforestation • PartA4. The Spatial Distribution and Inter-Annual Variability of Fire in Amazonia • PartA5. The Expansion of Intensive Agriculture and Ranching in Amazonia • PartA6. Scenarios of Future Amazonian Landscapes: Econometric and Dynamic Simulation Models • PartA7. The Impact of Roads in the Process of Deforestation • PartA8. Deforestation and Small Holders in Amazônia • PartA9. People and Environment in Amazonia: the LBA Experience and other Perspectives
Air • PartB2. Characteristics of Amazonian Climate: Main Features • PartB3. The Amazonian Boundary Layer and Mesoscale Circulations • PartB4. Natural Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emissions from Plants and their Roles in Oxidant Balance and Particle Formation • PartB5. Biomass burning, Long Range Transport of Products, and Regional and Remote Impacts • PartB6. Aerosol Particles: Their Composition, Role in Radiation Balance, Cloud Formation, and Nutrient Cycles • PartB7. Modeling the Regional and Remote Climatic Impact of Deforestation • PartB8. Evapotranspiration • PartB9. Global Warming and Climate Change: Impacts in Amazonia and Climate-Vegetation Feedbacks
Land • PartC2. Nutrient Limitations to Secondary Forest Regrowth • PartC3. The Maintenance of Soil Fertility in Managed Systems • PartC4. Sources and Sinks of Trace Gases in Amazonia and the Cerrado • PartC5. The Storage and Flow of Carbon in Amazonian Forests • PartC6. Recent Changes in Amazon Forest Biomass, Dynamics, and Composition • PartC7. Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes and Amazon Forest Metabolism • PartC8. The Regional Carbon Budget • PartC9. Forest Responses to Drought and the Prospects for the Savannaization of Amazonia • PartC10. Soil Carbon Dynamics • PartC11. Biogeography, Plant Ecophysiology and Water Relations
Water • PartD2. The Role of Rivers in the Regional Carbon Balance • PartD3. Water and Chemical Budgets at the Catchment Scale Including Nutrient Exports from Intact Forests and Disturbed Landscapes • PartD4. Floodplain Ecosystem Processes • PartD5. Effects of Climatic Variability and Deforestation on Surface Water Regimes
Status • 31 Chapters • Submitted: All – 3. • 2 Might be dropped. • 1 Will be completed by Friday • Completed revision process: 3 • Under revision: 16 • Starting review process: 10
AGU Critical Dates • April 30: Deadline for submissions – (Apologies for nagging… but I will continue nagging!!) • 13 weeks: Final files • 3 weeks: Approval • 8 weeks: To publisher • Release: Tentative February 2009?
Challenges: pro • Finding reviewers – if invited, please accept and give us a quick turn around • Authors: Need rapid turn-around. • Portuguese version: • Funds??