Sentences with phrase «rainforest dieback»
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Those changes may include the loss of Arctic summer sea ice, the collapse of ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica, dieback of the Amazon rainforest and changes in the jet stream and the pattern of El Niño and La Niña weather cycles.
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and the examples that he thinks have the potential to be large scale tipping elements are: Arctic sea - ice, a reorganisation of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation, melt of the Greenland or West Antarctic Ice Sheets, dieback of the Amazon rainforest, a greening of the Sahara, Indian summer monsoon collapse, boreal forest dieback and ocean methane hydrates.
«Exploring the Likelihood and Mechanism of a Climate - Change - Induced Dieback of the Amazon Rainforest.»
«The Amazon rainforest has already entered a dieback, in which the vicious cycle between land use (cattle ranching, logging), seasonal drought, and fire are rapidly degrading enormous swathes of rainforest each year.
Dieback of the Amazon rainforest has been predicted (2, 80) to occur under ≈ 3 — 4 °C global warming because of a more persistent El Niño state that leads to drying over much of the Amazon basin (81).
Examples that have received recent attention include the potential collapse of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC)(1), dieback of the Amazon rainforest (2), and decay of the Greenland ice sheet (3).
Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate - change - induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest
A tipping point could arise where a certain amount of dieback stops the effective recycling of precipitation to the rest of the rainforest, resulting in more rapid dieback.An Amazon Basin Tipping Point
and the examples that he thinks have the potential to be large scale tipping elements are: Arctic sea - ice, a reorganisation of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation, melt of the Greenland or West Antarctic Ice Sheets, dieback of the Amazon rainforest, a greening of the Sahara, Indian summer monsoon collapse, boreal forest dieback and ocean methane hydrates.