Interactions between biosphere, atmosphere and human land use in the Amazon Basin: an introduction -- Biogenic volatile organic compounds in Amazonian forest ecosystems -- The hydrology and energy balance of the Amazon Basin -- Extreme seasonal climate variations in the Amazon basin: droughts and floods -- The Amazon carbon balance: an evaluation of methods and results -- Climate and the Amazonian carbon balance -- Aquatic ecosystems -- Ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges of CO2 in dense and open ‘terra firme’ rain forests in Amazonia -- Overview of forest carbon stocks study in Amazonas State, Brazil -- Recent changes in Amazon forest biomass and dynamics -- The biogeochemistry of the main forest vegetation types in Amazonia -- Soil – vegetation interactions in Amazonia -- Fires in Amazonia -- Modelling Amazonian carbon budgets and vegetation dynamics in a changing climate -- Land use, land cover and land use change in the Brazilian Legal Amazon (1960-2013) -- The impact of land use on carbon stocks and fluxes in Brazilian Amazonia: Implications for policy -- An Amazonian forest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change -- The socio-ecological implications of land use and landscape change in the Brazilian Amazon -- Amazonia in perspective as a changing environment.