Sentences with phrase «forest loss»

The study estimated forest loss in the region at just over 20 percent since 1900.

This trend highlights the importance of using this newer, high - resolution monitoring system for keeping tabs on this growing cause of forest loss.

South American rainforests account for nearly half of global forest loss.

It shows that net forest loss increased from 4.1 million hectares per year between 1990 and 2000 to 6.4 million hectares between 2000 and 2005.

Forest loss contributes as much as 12 - 15 % to annual greenhouse gas emissions, about the same as the entire global transportation sector.

Diversity has the potential to decrease the effects of self - amplified forest loss.

Second, slowing forest loss is an economic challenge, not just an environmental one.

We are all encouraged by current political commitments that aim to «end deforestation» or «halt natural forest loss» in the next decade.

Advances in technology have made stopping forest loss feasible.

Yet an important tool for preventing forest loss is often overlooked: legally recognizing the right of forest communities and indigenous peoples.

Our results build on previous modeling efforts and show that regional scale forest loss impacts global climate circulation patterns, and extends the implications of these climate impacts to consequences for remote ecosystems.

While the country faces significant forest loss, using less wood is an important step to reducing deforestation and forest degradation.

However, recent work confirms that historical forest loss results in measurable climate impacts [42].

Future work will introduce disturbance scenarios that are based on observed forest loss (i.e., [43]-RRB-.

But the new study shows major forest losses can alter global climate by shifting the path of large - scale atmospheric waves or altering precipitation paths.

The institute's figure on Canadian forest loss was an error, she said.

Nine percent of the reserves accounted for 80 percent of the emissions from protected forest loss.

Animal agriculture has been and currently is an underlying cause of forest loss.

Improving transparency of concessions data — the who, what, when and where of commercial activities that drive over 60 % of global deforestation — is critical to preventing forest loss.

President Lula has committed Brazil to cut Amazon forest loss by 70 percent from a 1996 - 2005 baseline.

By elucidating the links between consumption and environmental impacts, the aim is to identify more effective measures to address tropical forest loss by targeting key commodities and countries.

Commercial logging accounts for just 15 percent of tropical forest loss worldwide.

Temperature declines in this region throughout the year with wNA forest loss result in a significant release from soil moisture limitation for productivity and transpiration from May - Oct.

Southeastern North America (SENA) experiences significant declines in GPP throughout the year with forest loss in wNA (Fig 3B).

Article: Delphine Clara Zemp, Carl - Friedrich Schleussner, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, Marina Hirota, Vincent Montade, Gilvan Sampaio, Arie Staal, Lan Wang - Erlandsson, Anja Rammig (2017): Self - amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation - atmosphere feedbacks.

The bulk of forest loss occurred in lowland forests, which declined by 7.8 million hectares or 11 percent on 2000 cover.

The reduction in Amazon deforestation comes a year after Brazil announced an ambitious plan to reduce forest loss by 70 percent by 2018 as part of its climate policy.

After 400,000 demonstrators took to the streets during the People's Climate March in New York City in September, governments, multinational corporations, civil society and indigenous peoples issued the New York Declaration on Forests, committing to cut forest loss in half by 2020 and completely end it by 2030.

Our results illustrate the need for a new generation of local - to - global scale analyses to identify potential ecoclimate teleconnections, their underlying mechanisms, and most importantly, their synergistic interactions, to predict the responses to increasing forest loss under future land use change and climate change.

Because, as the IPCC has estimated, tropical forest loss alone causes 20 percent of CO2 emissions worldwide, and deforestation generally accounts for 17.4 percent of all global GHG emissions — more the whole global transport sector — REDD is often cited as a «low hanging fruit» in climate policy.

Malaysia's rate of forest loss during the period was nearly 50 percent higher than the next runner up, Paraguay (9.6 percent).

This suggests a higher risk for forest loss along the drier southern fringe of the Amazon if annual precipitation will decrease substantially.

«The broader idea is that we must understand and include the effects of forest loss when modeling global climate and trying to predict how climate will change in the future,» said Swann.

Over the past decade, forest loss worldwide has slowed, according to a United Nations report released in October.

On a per - unit - area basis, the cannabis grows resulted in 1.5 times more forest loss and 2.5 times greater fragmentation of the landscape, breaking up large, contiguous forest into smaller patches and reducing wildlife habitat.

Galford and her co-authors developed a computer model to create maps showing potential forest losses under three future scenarios over the next several decades.

24 % and 29 %: mammal and bird species likely to go extinct in lowland forests of Sundaland in South - East Asia in coming decades if forest loss continues at the present rate

In cooperation with scientists from the Thünen - Institut and the Ecuadorian Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, a team from TUM compared the predicted loss of area of tree species caused by deforestation on the one hand and by predicted forest losses in an extreme climate change scenario on the other.

Meanwhile, smarter and more intensive food production that brings abandoned and degraded farmland back into productive use will deliver higher yields, bigger profits and reduced carbon emissions as forest loss is stemmed.

«Investors could feel more comfortable to take part in projects if they can track forest loss,» Souza said.

The study suggests that current forest loss in Western regions is big enough to trigger changes in plant growth, though it might not be possible to detect these small changes over large areas of the country.

«There's some pretty extensive, widespread forest loss going on,» Swann said.

The UN reports that from 1990 to 2015, global forested area declined by about three percent, but that the net rate of forest loss decreased by about 50 percent from previous decades.

The highest forest loss occurred in the tropics between 1990 and 2005, with net losses particularly high in South America and Africa, while extensive planting offsets deforestation losses in Asia.

The greatest decline in Eurasia's GPP occurs with the two experiments including forest loss in wNA (Fig 3A).

Large - scale deforestation in the tropics could drive significant and widespread shifts in rainfall distribution and temperatures, potentially affecting agriculture both locally and far from where forest loss is occurring, concludes a study published today in Nature Climate Change.

In an announcement made today, Brazil confirmed that the rate of forest loss over the last year represents the lowest in over two decades since record - keeping began — and down over 13 percent from the last year.