Variations in Amazonian forest canopy structure and light environments across environmental and disturbance gradients
Variations in Amazonian forest canopy structure and light environments across environmental and disturbance gradients
Marielle Smith1, Juliana Schietti2, Nathan Gonçalves1, David Minor3, Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida4, Daniel Gomes Rocha5, Susan Aragón6, Marcelo Menin7, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes8, Hélio Tonini9, Kátia Emídio da Silva10, Diogo Martins Rosa2, Bruce W Nelson2, Carlos Leandro Oliveira Cordeiro11, Raimundo Cosme Oliveira Junior12, Gang Shao1, Mendell S Souza13, Sean McMahon14, Daniel Almeida6, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão15, Gabriel De Oliveira16, Nicolas Zaslavsky de Lima6, Rafael Leandro de Assis17, Jose L Camargo17, Rita G Mesquita17, Scott R Saleska18, David D Breshears19, Flavia Regina Capellotto Costa2 and Scott C Stark1, (1)Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of São Paulo (USP/ESALQ), Department of Forest Sciences, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, Piracicaba, Brazil, (5)University of California Davis, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, Davis, CA, United States, (6)Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Recursos Naturais da Amazônia, Santarém, Brazil, (7)Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Brazil, (8)Embrapa Amapá, Macapá, Brazil, (9)Embrapa Pecuária Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, (10)Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus, Brazil, (11)Instituto Internacional para Sustentabilidade (IIS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (12)Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Santarém, Brazil, (13)Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Recursos Naturais da Amazônia, Santarém, Brazil, (14)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), Edgewater, MD, United States, (15)National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil, (16)University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States, (17)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Manaus, Brazil, (18)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (19)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
