The edited compilation of synthesis papers on the Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), Amazonia and Global Change (Keller et al., 2009) is now available in Portuguese and English at the ORNL DAAC's LBA-ECO Web site, http://daac.ornl.gov/LBA/lbaconferencia/amazonia_global_change/. This book synthesizes the results of the LBA research, bringing together the most important new results and the new understanding of Amazonia that has resulted.
LBA was an international research initiative under the leadership of Brazil (1996 - 2011). The project focused on the climatological, ecological, biogeochemical, and hydrological functions of Amazonia; the impact of land use change on these functions; and the interactions between Amazonia and the Earth system. The LBA-ECO component, which was funded by NASA, focused on the question: "How do tropical forest conversion, regrowth, and selective logging influence carbon storage, nutrient dynamics, trace gas fluxes, and the prospect for sustainable land use in Amazonia? "
The ORNL DAAC is a NASA-funded data center archiving and distributing terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical dynamics data.
Reference
Keller, M., M. Bustamante, J. Gash, and P. Silva Dias (Eds.) (2009), Amazonia and Global Change, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., vol. 186, 565 pp., AGU, Washington, D. C., doi:10.1029/GM186.