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The future of the Amazon: new perspectives from climate, ecosystem and social sciences [1]

The potential loss or large-scale degradation of the tropical rainforests has become one of the iconic images of the impacts of twenty-first century environmental change and may be one of our century's most profound legacies. In the Amazon region, the direct threat of deforestation and degradation is now strongly intertwined with an indirect challenge we are just beginning to understand: the possibility of substantial regional drought driven by global climate change.

Publication Date: 
26/05/2008
Yadvinder Malhi [2], J. Timmons Roberts [3], Richard A. Betts [4]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B [5]
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Tags:
Environment Economics [6], Ecosystem Services [7], Forest Conservation [8], Forest Fires [9], Deforestation [10], Climate Change [11], Climate Impacts [12], Climate Mitigation [13], Drought [14], Brazil [15], Amazon [16]
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