Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover
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It's not only the carbon in the trees Forest loss affects climate not just because of the impacts it has on the carbon cycle, but also because of how it affects the fluxes of energy and water between the land and the atmosphere. Evaluating global impact is complicated because deforestation can produce different results in different climate zones, making it hard to determine large-scale trends rather than more local ones. Alkama and Cescatti conducted a global assessment of the biophysical effects of forest cover change. Forest loss amplifies diurnal temperature variations, increases mean and maximum air temperatures, and causes a significant amount of warming when compared to CO 2 emission from land-use…
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- Deforestation (computer science)
- Environmental science
- Climate change
- Carbon cycle
- Global warming
- Forest cover
- Atmospheric sciences
- Land cover
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Climate action
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