Texto escrito para a revista Adiante sobre o Projeto Seca Floresta – experimento que simulou um cenário de seca prolongada na Amazônia.
Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point
Some model experiments predict a large-scale substitution of Amazon forest by savannah-like vegetation by the end of the twenty-first century. Expanding global demands for biofuels and grains, positive feedbacks in the Amazon forest fire regime and drought may...