Sentences with phrase «tropical forest disturbance»

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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.»

And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.

«Protecting tropical forests from disturbance is one of our best means to reduce atmospheric CO2 — yet ~ 10 million hectares [38,610 square miles] of forests are predicted to be flooded for reservoirs in Amazonia for «green energy» production.»

«As it is indicated that tropical cyclones [have] become more active since 1995, more effort may be needed to study the mechanism of windthrow by cyclones, and how to avoid disturbance in forests.»

«Tropical cyclones are one of the most important disturbances affecting US tropical and sub-tropical forest ecosystems,» saTropical cyclones are one of the most important disturbances affecting US tropical and sub-tropical forest ecosystems,» satropical and sub-tropical forest ecosystems,» satropical forest ecosystems,» said Zeng.