Analyzes of long term phenological and climatic data from Amazon tropical forest trees: detecting effects of climatic changes

• Processo: 07/57868-1
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Pesquisa
• Vigência (Início): 02 de janeiro de 2008
• Vigência (Término): 01 de fevereiro de 2008
• Área do conhecimento: Ciências Biológicas - Ecologia - Ecologia de Ecossistemas
• Acordo de Cooperação: DAAD
• Pesquisador responsável: Leonor Patricia Cerdeira Morellato
• Beneficiário: Leonor Patricia Cerdeira Morellato
• Pesquisador Anfitrião: Annette Menzel
• Instituição no exterior: Technical University of Munich (TUM), Alemanha
• Instituição Sede: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brasil
• Assunto(s): Mudança climática El Niño Fenologia Floração Frutificação Amazônia
• Palavra(s)-Chave do Pesquisador: Amazon Forest | Climatic Changes | El Nino | Flowering | Fruiting | Phenology

Resumo

The objective of this project is to investigate the effects of climate and climatic changes on Amazon tropical forest reproductive phenology over the last 40 years and to compare the phenological patterns between two forest sites, aiming to understand: (i) if the flowering and fruiting patterns are affected by climate, especially el niño events, represented by increasing dry season length or severity; (ii) if climatic changes have an effect on the flowering and fruit production over the years and, (iii) how the observed reproductive phenological trends differ between an urbanized forest reserve (RFD) and a continuous, not fragmented forest (EEST)? We seek to understand if changes on climate and other events (ENSO) are affecting the forest phenology, and if we could detect and predict trends for tropical forest phenology. (AU)