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The Brazilian–German project EcoRespira-Amazon currently conducts a study of soil respiration and soil chemistry in the Brazilian Amazon basin that comparatively examines forested land with post-forest land cover. The Amazon region, long recognized as a key component of the global carbon cycle and a tipping point in the global climate system, covers an area of 7 million km2; this study provides representative regional data that will help to fill existing knowledge gaps and to verify (or falsify) current assumptions on the role of humid tropical forest regions in the climate system.
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Funding was provided by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES). EcoRespira-Amazon is coordinated within the framework of NoPa2 by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). We very much appreciate their generous support.
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Matschullat, J., Monteiro Bezerra de Lima, R. Examining soil/ecosystem respiration in the Amazon basin. Environ Earth Sci 76, 141 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-016-6370-2
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