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  1. Case Study: The Amazon Rainforest

    Case Study: The Amazon Rainforest The Amazon in context. Tropical rainforests are often considered to be the "cradles of biodiversity." Though they cover only about 6% of the Earth's land surface, they are home to over 50% of global biodiversity. Rainforests also take in massive amounts of carbon dioxide and release oxygen through ...

  2. Amazon Deforestation: A Regional Conservation Case Study

    The study, called "Contribution of the Amazon protected areas program to forest conservation," measured historical deforestation from 2008 to 2020 using satellite deforestation data called PRODES, and compared deforestation rates in ARPA supported areas to non-ARPA supported areas. It was determined that ARPA supported areas experienced 9-39% ...

  3. Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

    The Amazon forest is a complex system of interconnected species, ecosystems and human cultures that contributes to the well-being of people globally 1.The Amazon forest holds more than 10% of ...

  4. Deforestation, warming flip part of Amazon forest from carbon sink to

    The study area, which represents about 20 percent of the Amazon basin, has lost 30 percent of its rainforest. New results from a nine-year research project in the eastern Amazon rainforest finds that significant deforestation in eastern and southeastern Brazil has been associated with a long-term decrease in rainfall and increase in temperature during the dry season, turning what was once a ...

  5. Case Study: The Amazonian Road Decision

    Case Study: The Amazonian Road Decision. The proposed Pucallpa-Cruzeiro do Sul will connect the Amazon's interior to urban centers and export markets in Peru and Brazil. However, critics are worried that the road will also create new opportunities for illegal logging and infringe on the territory of indigenous communities and wildlife.

  6. "We are killing this ecosystem": the scientists tracking the Amazon's

    In their 2016 study 2, Nobre and several colleagues estimated the Amazon would reach a tipping point if the planet warms by more than 2.5 °C above pre-industrial temperatures and if 20-25% of ...

  7. Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and ...

    The Amazon forest contains about 123 ± 23 petagrams carbon ... In the case of CO, ... The Amazon study area was defined according to subregions from Eva et al. 33 and biomes from Olson et al. 34.

  8. The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

    Only five studies have projected future Amazon forest degradation in a spatially explicit way, either covering the entire Amazon biome or focusing on the ... R. Cots, E. Cardona, P. M. Fearnside, Testing for criticality in ecosystem dynamics: The case of Amazonian rainforest and savanna fire. Ecol. Lett. 13, 793-802 (2010). Crossref.

  9. Study Shows the Impacts of Deforestation and Forest Burning on

    A new study, co-authored by a team of researchers including UConn Ecology and Evolutionary Biology researcher Cory Merow provides the first quantitative assessment of how environmental policies on deforestation, along with forest fires and drought, have impacted the diversity of plants and animals in the Amazon.

  10. Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change

    The Amazon rain forest absorbs one-fourth of the CO2 absorbed by all the land on Earth. The amount absorbed today, however, is 30% less than it was in the 1990s because of deforestation. A major motive for deforestation is cattle ranching. China, the United States, and other countries have created a consumer demand for beef, so clearing land ...

  11. Sustainable Management of the Amazon Rainforest

    Sustainable management ensures rainforests are worth. more than the value of the timber and other resources that can be extracted, such as gold. An example of this is sustainable foresty, which balances the removal of trees to sell with the conservation of the forest. Selective logging involves only removing a small number of trees, allowing ...

  12. (PDF) Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Amazon

    The forest disturbance trends for Colombian humid forests in the last 20 years show incre ases and decreases. staying on a level between ca. 4,000 km2 a nd 8,0 00 km. The forest disturbance area ...

  13. How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian ...

    We restricted our study area to the Amazon forest, defined as at least 60% forest cover in MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields (MOD44Bv006; see section 1) during 2001-2018 within the Amazon Basin ...

  14. PDF The Deforestation of the Amazon: A Case Study in Understanding

    Based on estimates of 1% annual tropical forest loss, the Amazon may be losing as many as 11 to 16 species per day (Wilson 1989), and the resulting ecosystems are often highly degraded (Buschbacher 1986). Te deforestation of Amazonia presents a challenging study of the interactions among people, their values, and the environment.

  15. Increasing drought puts the resilience of the Amazon rainforest to the test

    Since 2015, the Amazon has been slower to recover from increasing drought events, but, overall, the rainforest still shows a remarkable resilience. New international research led by KU Leuven ...

  16. Coolgeography

    Living World - Amazon Case Study The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth. It sits within the Amazon River basin, covers some 40% of the South American continent and as you can see on the map below includes parts of eight South American countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname.

  17. Case Study: The Amazon Rainforest

    73 Case Study: The Amazon Rainforest The Amazon in context. Tropical rainforests are often considered to be the "cradles of biodiversity." Though they cover only about 6% of the Earth's land surface, they are home to over 50% of global biodiversity. Rain forests also take in massive amounts of carbon dioxide and release oxygen through ...

  18. Explainer: Causes and consequences of Amazon fires and ...

    Brazil vowed last year to halt deforestation by 2030, yet the number of fires burning in the country's Amazon rainforest hit a 15-year high in June. Burning season began last month and the rate of ...

  19. Amazon rainforest fires: everything you need to know

    That month, the country's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reported that there were more than 80,000 fires, the most that it had ever recorded. It was a nearly 80 percent jump ...

  20. Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the ...

    Early studies showed that the Amazon rainforest may exhibit strong dieback by the end of the twenty-first century 9,19. ... the case of Amazonian rainforest and savanna fire. Ecol.

  21. Case Study: Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest

    The Amazon rainforest area spans about 8,200,000km 2 across 9 countries, making it the largest rainforest in the world. The tree coverage in 1970 was 4.1m km 2 . In 2018, it was 3.3m km 2 . Between 2001 and 2013, the causes of Amazonian deforestation were:

  22. Tropical rainforest case study

    Case study of a tropical rainforest setting to illustrate and analyse key themes in water and carbon cycles and their relationship to environmental change and human activity. Amazon Forest The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth. It sits within the Amazon River basin, covers some 40% of the South American continent and as you can ...

  23. AQA A level geography (AMAZON RAINFOREST CASE STUDY)

    Is the amazon rainforest considered a carbon source or sink? Carbon sink. How much carbon did the rainforest use to absorb before 1990s? 2.2 billion tonnes of CO2. How much did carbon did the rainforest absorb in 2015? only 1 billion. Case study of a tropical rainforest setting to illustrate and analyse key themes in water and carbon cycles and ...

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