[PDF] Top 20 The impact of Amazonian deforestation on Amazon basin rainfall

... in rainfall ( Δ R) was correlated with model resolution (Figure 2a; Pearson ’ s r = ...less deforestation (mean D = 51%, n = 14) compared to GCMs (mean D = 74%, n = ...100% deforestation, the ... See full document

... in deforestation and land disputes in conflicts involving some of the most powerful landholders have cost ...disproportional impact of these actors on conservation ...of deforestation in the region ... See full document

... scale, deforestation- reduced ET only partly offsets the positive effect of climate change on ET even in EXDEF, so that all the simulations give a net increase of runoff by the end of the ...of ... See full document

... the Amazon basin under diffuse ...the Amazon region. Biomass burning has the greatest impact during the Amazon basin dry season (considered here as June to November), with little ... See full document

... of deforestation; forest, savanna (Brazilian cerrado; here we use “savanna” to keep terms equivalent to the land cover clas- sification used), and ...low rainfall (Maeda et ...of deforestation (Costa ... See full document

... the Amazon basin experienced the most severe drought of the last 100 yr, which strongly impacted its hydrological regime and produced several forms of inconvenience to people living there ...the ... See full document

... southern Amazonian small rivers, the frequency of crevasse splays and avulsions is controlled by intrabasinal processes on a yearly to decadal timescale, while their loca- tion, ...catastrophic impact on ... See full document

... in Amazon basin suggested that land cover change has the potential to increase the impact of droughts (Bagley et ...tropical deforestation re- sults in warmer, drier conditions at the local ... See full document

... and rainfall in Brazil for low and high emissions scenarios (RCPs ...the Amazonian region, potentially severely degrading vegetation and ...scenario, rainfall could be significantly disturbed, ... See full document

... The Amazon River, which floods annually large parts of the forest, plays an important role in supporting the diver- sity of Amazonian ...the Amazon basin, the out- gassing carbon from the ... See full document

... It should be noted that the majority of simulations and studies have been used GCMs to assess the impact of land use change on climate. However, although these models describe important physical elements and ... See full document

... To deal with hostile environments for farming, irrigation techniques could represent an opportunity not only to ensure food production but also to increase and diversify it. Also it can provide life quality for rural ... See full document

... annual rainfall data of the basin designate varied results for different ...highest rainfall receiving station in the ...lowest rainfall receiving station in the basin present ... See full document

... Digital deforestation maps was conducted for each input dataset and each of the six test ...and deforestation layers were separated to evalu- ate commission and omission, ...previous deforestation, ... See full document

... The coefficient of this explanatory variable, which indicates the existence of spending onlabor, work, funding and equipment, in short, a factor that expresses the capacity of action of environmentalinstitutionsto combat ... See full document

... Solimões Basin, as the seasonal patterns presented in ...Solimões Basin average rainfall is always higher than aver- age ...in rainfall and ET, but it should not be a condition that is ... See full document

... from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancement of carbon stocks, emerged in 2007 as an instrument proposed for mitigating climate change by financially rewarding tropical countries for preserving their ... See full document

... How to feed a population that is growing towards 8 billion while protecting forests and biodiversity? To this question many have pointed land use intensification as the only possible answer, including a recent policy ... See full document

... Indeed, the San Vicente del Caguán municipality is supported economically by livestock activity, where dual-purpose livestock system is the most common, but this still is too traditional by the extensive way [2]. In ... See full document

... In this paper we demonstrate the combined use of spatial and temporal as- pects of Linked Data and illustrate how very heterogeneous phenomena can be illustrated over time and space. Our contribution is an explorer that ... See full document