AmazonFACE

The central feature of the AmazonFACE program is a field experiment of unprecedented scope that will expose an old-growth Amazon forest to the CO2 concentration of the future. A Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experimental facility will be established at the ZF2 research site is near Manaus, Brazil.

We have laid out plots and conducted extensive site characterization, but we do not yet have sufficient funding to build the experimental infrastructure and start the experiment. Please see the project website for a full description of the project.

Selected Publications
Martins NP, Fuchslueger L, Fleischer K, Andersen KM, Assis RL, Baccaro FB, Camargo PB, Cordeiro AL, Grandis A, Hartley IP, Hofhansl F, Lugli LF, Lapola DM, Menezes JG, Norby RJ, Rammig A, Rosa JS, Schaap KJ, Takeshi B, Valverde‑Barrantes OJ, Quesada CA. 2021. Fine roots stimulate nutrient release during early stages of leaf litter decomposition in a Central Amazon rainforest. Plant and Soil doi: 10.1007/s11104-021-05148-9. PDF
Menezes J, Garcia S, Grandis A, Nascimento H, Domingues TF, Guedes A, Aleixo I, Camargo P, Campos J, Damasceno A, Dias-Silva R, Fleischer K, Kruijt B, Longhi A, Martins N, Meir P, Norby RJ, Pereira I, Portela B, Rammig A, Ribeiro AG, Lapola DM, Quesada CA. 2021. Changes in leaf functional traits with leaf age: When do leaves decrease their photosynthetic capacity in Amazonian trees? Tree Physiology, DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpab042. PDF
Cordeiro AL, Norby RJ, Andersen KM, Valverde-Barrantes O, Fuchslueger L, Oblitas E, Hartley IP, Iversen CM, Gonçalves NB, Takeshi B, Lapola DM, Quesada CA.2020. Fine-root dynamics vary with soil depth and precipitation in a low nutrient tropical forest in the Central Amazonia. Plant-Environment Interactions 1:3-16, doi: 10.1002/pei3.10010. PDF
Fleischer K, Rammigl A, De Kauwe MG, Walker AP, Domingues TF, Fuchslueger L, Garcia S, Goll DS, Grandis A, Jiang MK, Haverd V, Hofhansl F, Holm JA, Kruijt B, Leung F, Medlyn BE, Mercado LM, Norby RJ, Pak B, von Randow C, Quesada CA, Schaap KJ, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Wang YP, Yang XJ, Zaehle S, Zhu Q, Lapola DM. 2019. Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition. Nature Geoscience 12: 736-+. doi: 10.1038/s41561-019-0404-9. PDF
Pereira IS, Nascimento HEM, Vicari MB, Disney M, DeLucia EH, Domingues T, Kruijt B, Lapola D, Meir P, Norby RJ, Ometto JPHB, Quesada CA, Rammig A, Hofhansl F. 2019. Performance of laser-based electronic devices for structural analysis of Amazonian terra-firme forests. Remote Sensing 11: 510. doi: 10.3390/rs11050510. PDF
Hofhansl, F., Andersen, K.M., Fleischer, K., Fuchslueger, L., Rammig, A., Schaap, K.J., Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., & Lapola, D.M. (2016). Amazon Forest Ecosystem Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and Alterations in Nutrient Availability: Filling the Gaps with Model-Experiment Integration. Frontiers in Earth Science, 4 https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2016.00019. PDF
Norby RJ, De Kauwe MG, Domingues TF, Duursma RA, Ellsworth DS, Goll DS, Lapola DL, Luus KA, MacKenzie AR, Medlyn BE, Pavlick R, Rammig A, Smith B, Thomas R, Thonicke K, Walker AP, Yang X, Zaehle S. 2016. Model-data synthesis for the next generation of forest FACE experiments. New Phytologist 209: 17-28. doi: 10.1111/nph.13593. PDF
Lapola DM, Norby RJ (orgs.) 2014. AmazonFACE, Assessing the effects of increased CO2 on the ecology and resilience of the Amazon forest – Science Plan & Implementation Strategy. MCTI, Brasilia, 54p. PDF
News articles
Grossman D. 2016. Amazon rainforest to get a growth check. Science 352: 635-636. PDF
Grossman D. 2019. What Ballooning Carbon Emissions Will Do to Trees. The Atlantic, October 18, 2019. (including the “diddly hypothesis!)
Tollefson J. 2013. Experiment aims to steep rainforest in carbon dioxide. Nature 496: 405-406. PDF
News story about Norby’s talk at Johns Hopkins University
Video from the Technical University of Munich
Photo Gallery. For many more from professional photographer João Marcos Rosa, visit the AmazonFACE gallery.
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