Climate change, deforestation and the fate of Amazon. Understanding and mitigation the impact of the increasing population and global economic activities on tropical forests is one of the greatest challenges for scientists and policy makers. A summary of some of the latest findings and thinking on ...
2007 Climate change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon. Science (New York N.Y.) 319, 169-172. (doi:10.1126/science.1146961)Malhi, Y. , J. Timmons Roberts , R. A. Betts , T. J. Killeen , W. Li , and C. A. Nobre ( 2008 ), Climate change, deforestation and the fate...
Along with climate change, extensive deforestation of the Amazon rainforest will increase the number of people in northern Brazil who are at risk of extreme heat — with potentially fatal results and disastrous economic impacts, according to a pioneering study released recently by Brazilian scientists...
Guilherme Mataveli, one of the co-authors of the study, said that indigenous lands are "essential" for Brazil to meet such environmental goals as reducing the impacts of climate change, since the South American country holds 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest.■...
"This shows the importance of governments acting on climate change," Erika Berenguer, a senior research associate focused on the Amazon at Oxford University, said of the figures released this week. She is currently doing field work in the rainforest, and says the decreasing rate of deforestation...
V. Climate benefits of intact Amazon forests and the biophysical consequences of disturbance. Front. For. Glob. Change 2, 47 (2019). Almeida, C. T., Oliveira-Júnior, J. F., Delgado, R. C., Cubo, P. & Ramos, M. C. Spatiotemporal rainfall and temperature trends throughout the ...
and find that the intensification of the dry season and an increase in deforestation seem to promote ecosystem stress, increase in fire occurrence, and higher carbon emissions in the eastern Amazon. This is in line with recent studies that indicate an increase in tree mortality and a reduction ...
The Amazon, an area twice the size of India, holds the world’s largest rainforest, about two-thirds of it within Brazil. It stores vast amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that causes climate change. The Amazon thus prevents the climate from warming even f...
Climate change, deforestation and the fate of Amazon. Understanding and mitigation the impact of the increasing population and global economic activities o... G Alberti - 《Forest》 被引量: 1254发表: 2008年 Contemporary climate change in the Amazon Deforestation of the entire Amazon basin - the ...
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has been a pressing issue that has garnered global attention in recent years. The impact of deforestation in the Amazon is multifaceted, affecting not only the local environment and biodiversity but also contributing to global climate change. This problem has ...