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While much attention has been paid to deforestation and other forms of habitat destruction, few attempts have been made to measure the loss of habitat through fragmentation and edge effect. ... Image that says Tropical Deforestation and Habitat Destruction.
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Abstract Tropical deforestation, including both the permanent conversion of forests to croplands and pastures and the temporary or partial removal of forests for shifting cultivation and selective logging, is estimated to have released on the order of 1-2 PgC/yr (15-35% of annual fossil fuel emissions) during the 1990s.
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Deforestation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Deforestation is the clearance of naturally occurring forests by the processes of logging and/or burning of trees in a forested area. There are several reasons deforestation occurs: trees or derived ...
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Deforestation in the Amazon region of South America would reduce rainfall in Texas by 25 percent from March to September. ... And the conversion of forests to shrub and grass in all three tropical regions studied would considerably enhance rainfall in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and eastern Africa, by up to...
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The deforestation and degradation of tropical forests are taking place at an extremely rapid pace. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the estimated annual rate of tropical deforestation during the 1981-1985 period was 113,846 square kilometers or 0.6% of the 1981 total forested area.
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New research finds that deforestation in different areas of the globe affects rainfall patterns over a considerable region. ... Now, a new study is offering insight into the long-term impacts of these changes, particularly the effects of large-scale deforestation in tropical regions on the global climate.
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Slowing tropical deforestation, which accounts for 20% of all global warming emissions, is one of the msot important ways to avoid dangerous climate change. ... Reducing tropical deforestation is feasible, affordable, and essential to avoid dangerous global warming...
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Analysis of figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) shows that tropical deforestation rates increased 8.5 percent from 2000-2005 when compared with the 1990s, while loss of primary forests may have expanded by 25 percent over the same period.
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