Despite the progress in sustainable development strategies, the role of the Amazon rainforest as a carbon sink faces increasing disturbances that may have a critical impact on global climate. Understanding the vulnerability of the Amazon rainforest to climate change is a major challenge, considering ...
Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 20610–20615 (2009). CAS Google Scholar Nepstad, D. C., Stickler, C. M., Soares-Filho, B. & Merry, F. Interactions among Amazon land use, forests ...
The Amazon rainforest is now alarmingly close to dying by 2030 due to climate change and forest loss, a WWF report warns.The world's largest rainforest is now close to a “tipping point(临界点)”that could mean it changes for-ever, no longer benefiting humanity in dealing with climate ch...
(1)The Amazon is the world's rainforest. However, climate change and human activities make it "sick". Usually, the rainforest can get better by ___.;(2)The Amazon is one of the world's wettest ___.;(3)If the Amazon "dies", our earth ___ even hotter.;(4)Many of them can'...
importance of climatic factors and species functional traits as drivers of tropical tree mortality are evaluated using a unique dataset in which the survival of over 1,000鈥塺ainforest canopy trees from over 200鈥塻pecies has been monitored monthly over five鈥塪ecades in the Central Amazon. We...
The growth ofpopulation and wealth has caused many problems to ourplanet—sea levels have risen 15cm over the past century;the Amazon rainforest has been cut by 17 % in the last 50years; 60% of all animals have been killed sincethe 1970s.Because of global temperature change, Earth's o...
根据第一段Tropical(热带的)birdsdeepinBrazil'sAmazonrainforestareshrinkingastheworld'sclimatechanges.(巴西亚马逊丛林深处的热带鸟类随着世界气候的变化,其体重在减小。)可知,本文主要讲了世界气候变化导致鸟类体重变化,B.ClimateChangeIsCausingSomeBirdstoLoseWeight.(气候变化导致一些鸟类体重减轻。)符合文意,故选B。
The Amazon rainforest has been cut by 17% in the last 50 years. 60% of all animals have been killed since the 1970s.Because of global temperature change, oceans and land have become much 5. warmer (warm)han before. Animals and ecosystems can't keep up with the new rate of change, ...
city of Belem being chosen to host the next climate change summit saying he's sure it will be a landmark event. The Brazilian president appeared together with his foreign relations minister and Para state governor where the Amazonian city is located amidst the world's largest rainforest....
The third factor is deforestation, which, in addition to removing forest cover, causes a dramatic change in rainfall patterns and distribution.These findings imply that current deforestation in the Amazon has already altered the regional climate. They also support previous reports of increased shallow ...