US EditionWhat would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers
- Brazilian and British scientists launched Esecaflor in 2000 to study the effects of climate change on the Amazon rainforest's rainfall.
- The Amazon rainforest stores a significant amount of carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.
- According to Lucy Rowland, an ecology professor at the University of Exeter, the rainforest did not turn into a savanna due to the decades-long drought.
- Rowland stated that despite some resilience, the forest is losing its ability to absorb carbon.
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What Would Happen if the Amazon Rainforest Dried Out? Experiment Offers Answers - WhoWhatWhy
What Would Happen if the Amazon Rainforest Dried Out? Experiment Offers Answers (Maria) The author writes, “A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest. But this patch of degraded forest, about the size of a soccer field, …
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What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers
In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future.
It is the longest-running project of its kind in the world and has become the source for dozens of academic articles from meteorology to ecology.
What happens when the Amazon rainforest dries out? This decades-long experiment has some answers
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