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

Keywords :   


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...

Tags: due landscape carbon releasing

Category:Electronics and Electrical

Latest from this category

All news
»
19.05Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
19.05Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
19.05IT Cosmetics and Kenvue Launch New Products
19.05Virgin Trains targets West Coast in return to rail
19.05Cashing In On The Stache
19.05 Dr. Squatch Launches Bronco Bricc
19.05Gillette Venus Announces Ambassadors Ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024
19.05Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
More »