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Record W4413140473 · doi:10.1073/pnas.2501585122

Embolism resistance supports the contribution of dry-season precipitation to transpiration in eastern Amazon forests

2025· article· en· W4413140473 on OpenAlexafffund
Magali F. Nehemy, Caio R. C. Mattos, Rafael S. Oliveira, Marina Hirota, Ying Fan, Monique Bohora Schlickmann, Deliane Penha, Leandro Lacerda Giacomin, Julliene S G M Silva, Mayda Rocha, Gleicy Rodrigues, Jeffrey J. McDonnell

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicEnvironmental and biological studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of SaskatchewanTrent UniversityUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e TecnológicoFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloInstituto SerrapilheiraNational Science Foundation
KeywordsAmazon rainforestTranspirationDry seasonEnvironmental scienceResistance (ecology)PrecipitationForestryAgroforestryHydrology (agriculture)AgronomyGeographyEcologyGeologyBiologyBotanyMeteorologyGeotechnical engineering

Abstract

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Transpiration drives most of the local rainfall during the dry season in the Amazon forests by recycling moisture into the atmosphere. However, the source, temporal origin of transpiration, and spatial distribution of transpiration water sources remain unclear. Here, we quantify transpiration sources across a topographic gradient in the eastern Amazon. We show that on hills, dry-season transpiration sources are mostly shallow soil water recharged by dry-season rainfall. This is different in valleys, where tree water sources include both shallow and deep soil layers, with both dry- and wet-season contributions. We show that species embolism resistance largely explains this pattern in tree water use but with contrasting trade-offs between topographic positions. The significant relationship between embolism resistance and depth of water uptake in both hill and valley species may merit incorporation into process-based models to understand changes in vegetation and land surface fluxes.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.256 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2025
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