Hydro-climatic and ecological behaviour of the drought of Amazonia in 2005
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26/05/2008
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
In 2005, southwestern Amazonia experienced the effects of an intense drought that affected life and biodiversity. Several major tributaries as well as parts of the main river itself contained only a fraction of their normal volumes of water, and lakes were drying up. Analyses of climatic and hydrological records in Amazonia suggest a broad consensus that the 2005 drought was linked not to El Nin