{"id":12856,"date":"2018-09-06T12:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/?p=12856"},"modified":"2018-09-06T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:42:57","slug":"phd-alum-yan-yang-publishes-in-nature-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/2018\/09\/06\/phd-alum-yan-yang-publishes-in-nature-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD alum Yan Yang publishes in Nature Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yan Yang, a 2017 PhD graduate, recently published part of her dissertation research in <em>Nature Communications<\/em>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-018-05668-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Post-drought Decline of the Amazon Carbon Sink&#8221;<\/a> Yang and her colleagues report a significant loss of carbon over the entire Amazon basin at a rate of 0.3 +\/- 0.2 PgC per year after the 2005 mega-drought, which continued persistently over the next three years (2005-2008) using systematic sampling of forest structure measured by LIDAR waveforms. Dr. Yang is affiliated with UCLA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ioes.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of the Environment and Sustainability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Prof. Myneni\u2019s works, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cliveg\">http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cliveg<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Yan Yang publishes in Nature Communications https:\/\/goo.gl\/9z5Voc\"><br \/>\nClick here to Tweet this news!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yan Yang, a 2017 PhD graduate, recently published part of her dissertation research in Nature Communications. In &#8220;Post-drought Decline of the Amazon Carbon Sink&#8221; Yang and her colleagues report a significant loss of carbon over the entire Amazon basin at a rate of 0.3 +\/- 0.2 PgC per year after the 2005 mega-drought, which continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,9,10,11,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}