Increasing Mortality of Large Trees Shifts Southwestern Amazon Forests Into a Source of CO2

Sara H Knox1, Eric Cosio2, Norma Salinas2, Chris E Forest3, Rudy Cruz4, Alison Hoyt5, Richard Tito4, Alex Nina-Quispe2, Kyle B Delwiche6, Stephen Chan7, John Grace8, Emanuel Ulrich Gloor9, Jose D Fuentes10 and Vikrant Sapkota11, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Instituto de Ciencias de la Naturaleza, Territorio y EnergĂ­a, Lima, Peru, (3)Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, (4)Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Institute for Nature, Earth and Energy, Lima, Peru, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States, (6)Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (9)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (10)Penn State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (11)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States