Beyond carbon: The contributions of South American tropical humid and subhumid forests to ecosystem services

LS Borma, MH Costa, HR da Rocha… - Reviews of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests are recognized for their role in providing diverse ecosystem services (ESs),
with carbon uptake the best recognized. The capacity of tropical forests to provide ESs is …

Climatic effects of Amazonian deforestation: Some results from ABRACOS

JHC Gash, CA Nobre - Bulletin of the American meteorological …, 1997‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper reviews the climatological measurements and some of the modeling in the Anglo–
Brazilian Amazonian Climate Observational Study (ABRACOS) project. The local-scale …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of deforestation on land surface temperature—A case study of Perak and Kedah, Malaysia

WS Wan Mohd Jaafar, KN Abdul Maulud… - Forests, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid change in forest and land cover,
especially in tropical forests due to massive deforestation. The major factor responsible for …

Climatic impact of global-scale deforestation: Radiative versus nonradiative processes

EL Davin, N de Noblet-Ducoudré - Journal of Climate, 2010‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
A fully coupled land–ocean–atmosphere GCM is used to explore the biogeophysical impact
of large-scale deforestation on surface climate. By analyzing the model sensitivity to global …

A global database of land surface parameters at 1-km resolution in meteorological and climate models

V Masson, JL Champeaux, F Chauvin… - Journal of …, 2003‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Ecoclimap, a new complete surface parameter global dataset at a 1-km resolution, is
presented. It is intended to be used to initialize the soil–vegetation–atmosphere transfer …

[ספר][B] Forest hydrology: an introduction to water and forests

M Chang - 2006‏ - books.google.com
Although a few texts on forest hydrology are available, they cover very little, if any,
background on water resources. On the other hand, books dealing with water resources do …

Effects of deforestation on the onset of the rainy season and the duration of dry spells in southern Amazonia

AT Leite‐Filho, VY de Sousa Pontes… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Amazonian deforestation is causing notable changes in the hydrological cycle by altering
important precipitation characteristics. This study uses daily rainfall time series data from …

Seasonality of water and heat fluxes over a tropical forest in eastern Amazonia

HR Da Rocha, ML Goulden, SD Miller… - Ecological …, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
We used the eddy covariance technique from July 2000 to July 2001 to measure the fluxes
of sensible heat, water vapor, and CO2 between an old‐growth tropical forest in eastern …

Comparative measurements and seasonal variations in energy and carbon exchange over forest and pasture in South West Amazonia

C Von Randow, AO Manzi, B Kruijt… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2004‏ - Springer
Comparative measurements of radiation flux components and turbulent fluxes of energy and
CO 2 are made at two sites in South West Amazonia: one in a tropical forest reserve and one …

Combined Effects of Deforestation and Doubled Atmospheric CO 2 Concentrations on the Climate of Amazonia

MH Costa, JA Foley - Journal of Climate, 2000‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
It is generally expected that the Amazon basin will experience at least two major
environmental changes during the next few decades and centuries: 1) increasing areas of …