Table 1.

Site details, data sources and references for the eight Amazonian eddy-flux sites used in the forest–pasture comparison.

district	tower ID	vegetation	data source	data period used	season	references
Maraba	Reserva Vale	forest	ABRACOS	October 1993	dry	Gash et al. (1996)
Maraba	Fazenda Boa Sorte	pasture	ABRACOS	October 1993	dry	Gash et al. (1996)
Manaus	K34	forest	LBA	July–October 1999–2006	dry	Malhi et al. (1998, 2002); Araújo et al. (2002)
Manaus	Fazenda Dimona	pasture	ABRACOS	July–October 1990–1991	dry	Gash et al. (1996)
Santarem	K83	forest	LBA	January–December 2000–2004	all year	Goulden et al. (2004); da Rocha et al. (2004); Miller et al. (2004)
Santarem	K77	pasture/crop	LBA	January–December 2000–2004	all year	Sakai et al. (2004)
Rondonia	Reserva Jaru	forest	LBA	January–December 2001–2002	all year	von Randow et al. (2004); Kruijt et al. (2004)
Rondonia	Fazenda Nossa Senhora	pasture	LBA	January–December 2001–2002	all year	von Randow et al. (2004)