Forest edges in the tropics increase carbon emissions

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	Forest edges in the tropics increase carbon emissions
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	2021-09-06
发布年	2021
语种	英语
国家	德国
领域	资源环境
正文(英文)	The deforestation of the tropical rainforests is progressing unstoppably. According to scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), these forests are becoming fragmented at a higher rate than expected. By analysing high-resolution satellite data, they were able to measure even the smallest piece of tropical forest and, for the first time, study the changes in tropical fragmentation. In a paper for Science Advances, they discuss how this previously unnoticed and underestimated increase in fragmentation to almost one third of the forest area has consequences for the global carbon cycle. Because of increased tree mortality, large amounts of carbon are released at the forest edges. Model simulations also show that these emissions could increase in the future. Only through less deforestation can the process be slowed down.
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来源平台	Helmholtz Association
文献类型	新闻
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/337436
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	admin. Forest edges in the tropics increase carbon emissions. 2021.