Several environmental organizations released a joint technical note about the impacts of the new proposal that aims to reduce protection of the Jamanxim National Forest. The measure will benefit land grabbers and may double deforestation in the region.
The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest
The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest
Moist tropical forests in Amazonia and elsewhere are subjected to increasingly severe drought episodes through the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and possibly through deforestation-driven reductions in rainfall. The effects of this trend on tropical forest...