| Title: | "Effects of large-scale Amazon forest degradation on climate and air quality through fluxes of carbon dioxide, water, energy, mineral dust and isoprene" |
| Author(s): | Betts R; Sanderson M; Woodward S; |
| Address: | "Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK. richard.betts@meoffice.gov.uk" |
| Journal Title: | Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0962-8436 (Print) 1471-2970 (Electronic) 0962-8436 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Loss of large areas of Amazonian forest, through either direct human impact or climate change, could exert a number of influences on the regional and global climates. In the Met Office Hadley Centre coupled climate-carbon cycle model, a severe drying of this region initiates forest loss that exerts a number of feedbacks on global and regional climates, which magnify the drying and the forest degradation. This paper provides an overview of the multiple feedback process in the Hadley Centre model and discusses the implications of the results for the case of direct human-induced deforestation. It also examines additional potential effects of forest loss through changes in the emissions of mineral dust and biogenic volatile organic compounds. The implications of ecosystem-climate feedbacks for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies are also discussed" |
| Keywords: | *Air Pollution Butadienes/chemistry/metabolism Carbon Dioxide/*metabolism *Climate Conservation of Natural Resources Dust Ecosystem Energy Metabolism/physiology Greenhouse Effect Hemiterpenes/chemistry/metabolism Minerals Pentanes/chemistry/metabolism Tre; |
| Notes: | "MedlineBetts, Richard Sanderson, Michael Woodward, Stephanie eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2008/02/13 Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 May 27; 363(1498):1873-80. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.0027" |
