This book offers a panorama of recent scientific achievements produced
through the framework of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere programme
(LBA) and other research programmes in the Brazilian Amazon. The content
is highly interdisciplinary, with an overarching aim to contribute to
the understanding of the dynamic biophysical and societal/socio-economic
structure and functioning of Amazonia as a regional entity and its
regional and global climatic teleconnections. The target readership
includes advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students and
researchers seeking to untangle the gamut of interactions that the
Amazon's complex biophysical and social system represent.