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Amazonian deforestation and global warming: carbon stocks in vegetation replacing Brazil's Amazon forest
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In this article, a Markov matrix of annual transition probabilities was constructed to estimate landscape composition in 1990 and to project future changes, assuming behavior of farmers and ranchers remains unchanged.About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 1996-01-01. It has received 288 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Secondary forest & Deforestation.read more
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Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates.
TL;DR: It is found that the most important source of error is currently related to the choice of the allometric model, and more work should be devoted to improving the predictive power of allometric models for biomass.
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Distribution of Aboveground Live Biomass in the Amazon Basin
TL;DR: In this article, a decision tree approach was used to develop the spatial distribution of aboveground live biomass (AGLB) for seven distinct biomass classes of lowland old-growth forests with more than 80% accuracy.
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Global warming and tropical land-use change: greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning, decomposition and soils in forest conversion, shifting cultivation and secondary vegetation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that tropical forest conversion, shifting cultivation and clearing of secondary vegetation make significant contributions to global emissions of greenhouse gases today, and have the potential for large additional emissions in future decades.
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Satellite estimation of tropical secondary forest above-ground biomass: data from Brazil and Bolivia.
TL;DR: In this paper, a test of the ability to estimate above-ground biomass of tropical secondary forest from canopy spectral reflectance using satellite optical data was conducted in 34 regrowth stands.
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Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis
Cory C. Cleveland,Alan R. Townsend,Philip G. Taylor,Silvia Alvarez-Clare,Mercedes M. C. Bustamante,George B. Chuyong,Solomon Z. Dobrowski,Pauline F. Grierson,Kyle E. Harms,Benjamin Z. Houlton,Alison Marklein,William J. Parton,Stephen Porder,Sasha C. Reed,Carlos A. Sierra,Whendee L. Silver,Edmund V. J. Tanner,William R. Wieder +17 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of carbon-nutrient-climate relationships in 113 sites across the tropical forest biome showed that mean annual temperature was the strongest predictor of aboveground NPP (ANPP) across all tropical forests, but this relationship was driven by distinct temperature differences between upland and lowland forests.
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Climate change : the IPCC scientific assessment
TL;DR: A review of the intergovernmental panel on climate change report on global warming and the greenhouse effect can be found in this paper, where the authors present chemistry of greenhouse gases and mathematical modelling of the climate system.
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Climate change 1992 : the supplementary report to the IPCC scientific assessment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an update of the emissions scenarios for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which is based on the results of the 1992 International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (JDSN).
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Climate change 1994 : radiative forcing of climate change and an evaluation of the IPCC IS92 emission scenarios
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an evaluation of the IPCC IS92 emission scenarios Appendices and conclude that the IS92 emissions scenarios are not suitable for use in the WGIII report.
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Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change
TL;DR: A coupled numerical model of the global atmosphere and biosphere has been used to assess the effects of Amazon deforestation on the regional and global climate; there was a significant increase in surface temperature and a decrease in evapotranspiration and precipitation over Amazonia.
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Abandoned pastures in eastern Amazonia. I. Patterns of plant succession
TL;DR: These Amazon ecosystems generally can recover after large-scale pasture disturbances and only where land has been used too intensively for long periods is reforestation uncertain, but probably less than 10% of the pasture land in northern Para has degraded to this level.