A crisis in the making: responses of Amazonian forests to land use and climate change |
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| Authors: | Laurance W F |
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| Institution: | Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA), CP 478, Manaus, AM 69011-970, Brazil; Biodiversity Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA. |
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| Abstract: | At least three global-change phenomena are having major impacts on Amazonian forests: (1) accelerating deforestation and logging; (2) rapidly changing patterns of forest loss; and (3) interactions between human land-use and climatic variability. Additional alterations caused by climatic change, rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, mining, overhunting and other large-scale phenomena could also have important effects on the Amazon ecosystem. Consequently, decisions regarding Amazon forest use in the next decade are crucial to its future existence. |
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