Surface Energy Dynamics and Canopy Structural Properties in Intact and Disturbed Forests in the Southern Amazon

Pinagé, Ekena Rangel; Bell, David M.; Longo, Marcos; Silva, Carlos A.; Csillik, Ovidiu; Huete, Alfredo

doi:10.1029/2023jg007465

Surface Energy Dynamics and Canopy Structural Properties in Intact and Disturbed Forests in the Southern Amazon

Journal Article · Fri Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Journal of Geophysical Research. Biogeosciences

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023jg007465· OSTI ID:2234043

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University of Technology Sydney (Australia); Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (United States)
Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR (United States)
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
University of Technology Sydney (Australia)

The Brazilian Amazon has been a focus of land development with large swaths of forests converted to agriculture. Forest degradation by selective logging and fires has accompanied the agricultural frontier and has resulted in significant impacts on Amazonian ecosystems. Changes in forest structure resulting from forest disturbances have large impacts on the surface energy balance, including on land surface temperature (LST) and evapotranspiration (ET). This study's objective is to assess the effects of forest disturbances on water fluxes and forest structure in a transitional forest site in the Southern Amazon. We used ET and LST products from MODIS and Landsat 8 and GEDI-derived forest structure data to address our research questions. We found that disturbances induced seasonal water stress, more pronounced in croplands/pastures than in forests (differences up to 20% in the dry season), and more pronounced in second-growth and recently burned areas than in logged and intact forests (differences up to 12% in the dry season). Moreover, ET and LST were negatively related, with more consistent relationships across disturbance classes in the dry season (R²: 0.41–0.87) than in the wet season (R²: 0.18–0.49). Forest and cropland or pasture classes showed contrasting relationships in the dry season. Finally, we found that forest structure exhibited stronger relationships with ET and LST in the most disturbed forests (R²: 0.01–0.43) than in the least disturbed forests (R² < 0.05). Our findings help to elucidate degraded forests functioning under a changing climate and to improve estimates of water and energy fluxes in Amazonian degraded forests.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 2234043

Journal Information:: Journal of Geophysical Research. Biogeosciences, Journal Name: Journal of Geophysical Research. Biogeosciences Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 128; ISSN 2169-8953

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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