Sentences with phrase «degraded savanna»
Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse shrubby plant cover and low biodiversity.
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Many studies show that in the absence of other contributing factors, 4 ° Celsius of global warming would be the tipping point to degraded savannas in most of the central, southern, and eastern Amazon.
«The latest climate models show that, by 2050, half of the Amazon rainforest could be transformed into degraded savannas or seasonable forests, drier and poorer in biodiversity and biomass.»
Not exact matches
In the Guam case, the Acacia trees are pursued to restore barren scars because these degraded soil surfaces do not become re-vegetated by the grass species that comprise the savanna vegetation.
Much of the rest of the continent is rangeland, savanna, desert and mostly on fairly poor and degrades soils.
Sugarcane scores well when grown on degraded and abandoned croplands due to its high efficiency as a feedstock for ethanol, but again, as in all cases, its carbon payback time surges when its cultivation replaces tropical forest or savanna.
This practice restores degraded grasslands by using livestock as a proxy for the wild herds that the great plains and savannas of the world evolved with.