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Tropical forests and the changing earth system


Tropical forests and the changing earth system - Journals

This paper synthesizes recent research on one key component of the changing Earth system: tropical forests. ... Thus, small changes within the ...

Tropical forests and the changing earth system - PubMed

Tropical forests are global epicentres of biodiversity and important modulators of the rate of climate change. Recent research on deforestation rates and ...

Tropical Forests and the Changing Earth System - jstor

Tropical forests and the changing earth system. Simon L. Lewis*. School of Geography, Earth & Biosphere Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds ...

Tropical forests and the changing earth system - PMC

Tropical forests are global epicentres of biodiversity and important modulators of the rate of climate change. Recent research on deforestation rates and ...

Tropical forests and the changing earth system - Semantic Scholar

It is suggested that the current carbon sink in intact forests is unlikely to continue, and that the tropical forest biome may even become a large net ...

Tropical forests and the changing earth system - Journals

Recent impacts have most likely been: (i) a large source of carbon to the atmosphere, and major loss of species, from deforestation and (ii) a large carbon sink ...

Tropical Forests in the Changing Earth System

The project works with partners across the tropical nations, toward the shared scientific goals of documenting the key patterns, impacts and processes of change ...

Tropical forests and the changing earth system | Request PDF

Request PDF | Tropical forests and the changing earth system | Tropical forests are global epicentres of biodiversity and important modulators of the rate ...

Tropical forests in the changing earth system | Copernicus

The scientific objectives are: (1) Determine the trajectory of change in remaining tropical forests, (2) Unravel the drivers of change, (3) Gauge the ...

T-FORCES: Tropical Forests in the Changing Earth System

“Tropical Forests in the Changing Earth System” is a new European Research Council project. This 5-yr interdisciplinary research project aims to construct a ...

Lewis, S.L. (2006) Tropical Forests and the Changing Earth System ...

ABSTRACT: The Qinghai Province, situated in the northwest of China, is experiencing a continuous warming which is approximately three times more ...

Tropical forests in a changing environment - ScienceDirect.com

Tropical forest landscapes are changing rapidly as human populations and economies grow. Tropical forests also have a disproportionate role in global carbon and ...

Understanding tropical forest behaviour in Earth's changing climate ...

Understanding tropical forest behaviour in Earth's changing climate system ... Supported through the EU-funded T-FORCES project, scientists have ...

TROPICAL FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and methane) that occur naturally in the Earth's atmosphere trap heat from the sun and warm the Earth to a temperature ...

No time to waste: Tropical forests become source of global warming

The overall uptake of carbon into the planet's intact tropical forests actually peaked in the 1990s. By the 2010s, on average, the ability of a ...

Major New Research Project to Study How Tropical Forests ...

"Tropical forests cycle more carbon and water than any other biome, and as such they're a critical player in the planet's energy balance and in climate change.

Tropical forest restoration under future climate change - Nature

We show that carbon in restored tropical forests is largely preserved under the entire range of potential future climates.

The secret lives of roots: Tropical forest root systems are central to ...

“Tropical rainforests are among the least understood biomes on the planet, but exert among the greatest impacts on global climate, water and ...

Tropical Forests and Planet Earth: A Macroscope View

The twin key environmental challenges of our times are to stabilise our climate system and reverse the decline of biodiversity. Tropical forests play an ...

Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in ...

These findings indicate that tropical forests may be undervalued in carbon accounting systems that neglect climate feedbacks from surface ...