Publication Date:
2017-03-18
Description:
High resolution analysis of tropical forest fragmentation and its impact on the global carbon cycle Nature Communications, Published online: 17 March 2017; doi:10.1038/ncomms14855 Vast quantities of carbon stored in tropical forests are threatened by deforestation. Here, using high resolution satellite data, Brinck et al . examine how edge effects influence carbon emissions and they find an additional 10.3 Gt of carbon are released by deforestation when including fragmentation effects.
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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