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Due to landscape fragmentation, Brazil's rainforests are releasing more carbon dioxide

2014-10-07 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Because of the deforestation of tropical rainforests in Brazil, significantly more carbon has been lost than was previously assumed. As scientists of the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) write in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the effect of the degradation has been underestimated in fragmented forest areas, since it was hitherto not possible to calculate the loss of the biomass at the forest edges and the higher emission of carbon dioxide. The UFZ scientists have now...

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