Continental Integration of Soil Water, Sap Flow, Stem Diameter and Stem Water Potential Sensors Across Tropical Forests: Science Necessity, Technical Deployment and Operational Challenges
Continental Integration of Soil Water, Sap Flow, Stem Diameter and Stem Water Potential Sensors Across Tropical Forests: Science Necessity, Technical Deployment and Operational Challenges
Jeff Warren1, Alfonso Zambrano2, Nathan McDowell3, Eugenie Mas4, Robinson I Negron Juarez5, Cynthia Wright6, Bruno Gimenez7, Nurfarah Aqilah8, Joseph Wright S.9, Cristina Santos da Silva10, Gustavo Spanner11, Valdiek da Silva Menezes11, Regison Oliveira12, Adriano Jose Nogueira Lima13, Niro Higuchi14, Jeff Chambers15 and Charles Koven16, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, D.C., United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, United States, (6)USDA Forest Service, Knoxville, United States, (7)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Balboa, Panama, (8)Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, Malaysia, (9)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama, (10)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (11)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil, (12)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, (13)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Forest Management Laboratory, Manaus, Brazil, (14)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Forest Management, Manaus, Brazil, (15)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (16)University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, United States