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Amazon-FACE: study to the direct impact of elevated CO2 in the Amazonia

Amazon-FACE is a large and long term initiative to study the direct impact of future elevated CO2 concentrations on the forests of Amazonia. The overarching question is whether increasing CO2 concentrations will stimulate biomass growth and water use efficiency, or at least increase forest resilience against other detrimental effects of climate change, as a result of its stimulating effects on photosynthesis and water use efficiency. Amazon-FACE is rooted in a long legacy of research in the Amazon research and sites near Manaus, Brazil, often in the scope of the Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA). LBA has been co-founded by Wageningen University and Research (Alterra) during the late nineties, led by Brazilian institutes and with European and north-American institutes.