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'Tipping Points' for the Amazon Forest
'Tipping points' for the Amazon forest - ScienceDirect.com
Compared to the slow process of vegetation growth and carbon assimilation, rapid mortality, and biomass consumption by forest fires favor grass species as ...
Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system - Nature
A 'tipping point' is the critical threshold value of an environmental stressing condition at which a small disturbance may cause an abrupt shift ...
Scientists have long warned that climate change and human-driven deforestation could push the Amazon rainforest past a “tipping point” – a ...
Recurrent droughts increase risk of cascading tipping events by outpacing adaptive capacities in the Amazon rainforest.
Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could hit a tipping point by 2050 as a result of water stress, land clearance and climate disruption, a ...
Previous studies suggest that the Amazon could be pushed beyond its tipping point if forest loss exceeds 40%. At this level of deforestation ...
The Amazon rainforest will cross a tipping point, dry out, lose the ability to sustain itself, and begin an irreversible transformation into a vast savannah.
Researchers have found areas of the Amazon that, according to sediment core samples, went 4,000 years without a single burn. As Berenguer worked ...
The potential for a tipping point in the Amazon – also known as 'Amazon dieback' – relates to the close coupling between the land ecosystem and the atmosphere.
The tipping point for the Amazon. “Our data show that the protection of 80% of the Amazon is necessary and possible, but above all, urgent. If ...
By 2050, up to 47 percent of the Amazon could hit critical ecological tipping points, researchers say, transitioning into savanna grasslands or other degraded ...
NINE WAYS TO AVOID THE AMAZON TIPPING POINT
(i) Global greenhouse gas emissions, combined with local deforestation and forest degradation, are pushing the Amazonian system closer to a tipping point.
The Amazon rainforest is teetering on the precipice of a dangerous tipping point, new research warns. It's gradually losing its ability to ...
Is the Amazon forest approaching a tipping point? - ScienceDaily
Global warming may be interacting with regional rainfall and deforestation to accelerate forest loss in the Amazon, pushing it towards ...
Human security impacts of crossing the Amazon rainforest tipping ...
Research suggests that upon reaching about 20–25% (that is 3–8% more) the tipping point to flip the rainforest into a non-forest savannah will ...
Given the current trajectory of global heating, and direct attacks on the forest from logging and fires, the study finds that 10-47 per cent of ...
Quantitative assessments for the maintenance of the tropical forest indicate that 'tipping points' may exist for total deforested area (>40%) and for global ...
The scientific literature indicates this tipping point could be triggered at 25% Amazon forest loss, in conjunction with climate change impacts.
Amazon rainforest reaching tipping point, researchers say - BBC
The world's largest rainforest is fast losing its ability to bounce back from human impacts, researchers say.
But much like the physical transition separating the Amazon from the Cerrado, the forest's limit is probably not defined by a single, clear ...