通读全文,并根据第一段“Much of the Amazon’s biodiversity (生物多样性) is under fire-literally. In the last two decades, deforestation (滥伐) and forest fire ate into the ranges of thousands of plant and animal species in the Amazon rainforest.(亚马逊的大部分生物多样性正受到大火的严重破坏...
BATON ROUGE – Few places on Earth are as rich in biodiversity and removed from human influence as the world's largest rainforest—the Amazon. Scientists at LSU have been conducting research within the pristine rainforest for decades. However, they began to notice that some of the animals, sp...
It’s not a pack of armed guerrillas (游击队员) marching through the trees or a squad of fighter pilots dropping bombs that are wiping out the world’s largest rainforest. It’s a perfect storm of climate change and industrial activity that’s effectively drying out the place, with two ...
Assessing Ecosystem Integrity in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest to Indicate Biodiversity Loss and Highlight Areas for Adaptation PoliciesEcosystem integrity (EI) may be defined as an equilibrium state of a given natural system able to self-regulate throughout many functional processes. The concept of...
Photograph of an Amazonian rainforest. Credit: Oriol Massana and Adrià López-Baucells In August 2017, the Bolivian government passed a contentious law that paved the way for construction of a new 190-mile road cutting through one of the country's most iconic and biodiverse protected rainforests...
This not only leads to the loss of biodiversity but also contributes to climate change by 6 (reduce) the forest’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Despite these challenges, there is still hope for the Amazon rainforest. Conservation efforts, including sustainable logging practices and the ...
Deforestation In The Amazon Rainforest Essay Deforestation is the clearing of a forest and/or cutting down of trees for human benefits such as agriculture, wood exports, etc. Deforestation is the cause of numerous environmental impacts such as habitat loss, flooding and soil erosion. It can also...
Rainforests play an invaluable role in sustaining life, but every year large portions of them are cut down for logging, mining, and cattle ranches.
Trees in the Amazon rainforest may soon die off,researchers warn.According to a new study,the famous forest is exhibiting signs of poor health that could mean large portions of it will become savannah(稀树草原)in the near future. "The Amazon is a custodian (监护人) of biodiversity and pos...
The deforestation started in the early 1970s, though many places are not bothered yet; however, the loss is huge. "Arc of deforestation", the southern and eastern part of Amazon Rainforest, are the parts that get deforested the most. The loss of biodiversity and climatic change are the ...