Sentences with phrase «global forest disturbance»

NASA's Quarterly Indicator of Cover Change (QUICC), a MODIS satellite - based product that underpins Mongabay's Global Forest Disturbance Alert System (GloF - DAS), detected a significant increase in forest disturbance in Peru's Alto Nanay Pintuyacu Chambira conservation area and Alto Purus National Park between January 1 and March 31, 2015.

Not exact matches

«To predict the effects this type of deforestation has on the relationship between rain forest and the savanna — and on the local and global climate — it's necessary to understand how the transitional forest evolves in time and reacts to disturbances,» explained Yannick De Decker, associate professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, as well as the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit at ULB.

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

In January 2012, Global Forest Watch Canada reported that the eight Alberta caribou herds in the tar sands region already had 64 per cent industrial disturbance.

Although global forests currently capture and store more carbon each year than they emit, 46 the ability of forests to act as large, global carbon absorbers («sinks») may be reduced by projected increased disturbances from insect outbreaks, 47 forest fire, 48 and drought, 49 leading to increases in tree mortality and carbon emissions.

A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and / or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta's oil sands.

These results illustrate the first - order implications for global ecosystems resulting from regional forest disturbances.

Risk of natural disturbances makes future contribution of Canada's forests to the global carbon cycle highly uncertain.