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Figure 1: Cerrado in Amazonia, where rainfall strongly limits plant growth.

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Figure 2: Two model calculations of the annual carbon balance of natural ecosystems in the Amazon Basin.

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Prentice, I., Lloyd, J. C-quest in the Amazon Basin. Nature 396, 619–620 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/25224

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