The Tapajos National Forest in Central-Eastern Brazil (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

The Tapajos National Forest in Central-Eastern Brazil

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The Tapajos National Forest is in central-eastern Brazil. The PIRE researchers used three cameras set up on different towers across the Amazon to photograph individual tree crowns, discovering a pattern of leaf growth and death that helps us understand the Amazon's seasonality.

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Neill Prohaska, Ph.D. student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona

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