@InCollection{BormaNobrCard:2013:ReAmTr,
author = "Borma, Laura De Simone and Nobre, Carlos Afonso and Cardoso,
Manoel",
title = "Response of the Amazon Tropical Forests to Deforestation, Climate,
and Extremes, and the Occurrence of Drought and Fire",
booktitle = "Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to
Essential Resources [Hardcover]",
publisher = "Academic Press",
year = "2013",
editor = "Pielke, Roger A.",
pages = "153–163",
keywords = "Amazon dieback, Amazon forest, biodiversity loss, climate change,
deforestation, drought, ecosystem responses, fire, forest
resilience, savannization.",
abstract = "To the extent that many studies of the last two decades deepen the
understanding about the Amazon tropical forest and more is known
about the environmental services it offers, they also increased
our level of awareness about the growing threats that this system
has been subjected to. In addition to the process of uncontrolled
expansion of the agriculture frontier, the Amazon, for its large
scale, is an ecosystem highly susceptible to climate at regional
and global scales. In this chapter we address issues related to
environmental drivers of change in the Amazon: deforestation,
climate, climate extremes, and fire. The goal is to present
aspects of a synergistic action of these effects and the possible
responses of Amazonian ecosystems to these drivers of change: (1)
short-term responses as the mortality of some species
(biodiversity loss), loss of living biomass with consequent
influence on storage, and exchanges of carbon with the atmosphere
to (2) long-term responses, such as savannization and Amazon
dieback. On the other hand, it has been hypothesized that the
forest may show some degree of resilience to tolerate those
impacts before starting to respond with degradation of the
ecosystems. One of the challenges of Amazonian science today is to
find out how close those drivers might be from exceeding tipping
points of stability of the Amazonian system.",
affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {} and
{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
doi = "10.1016/B978-0-12-384703-4.00228-8",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-384703-4.00228-8",
isbn = "978-0-12-384704-1",
label = "self-archiving-INPE-MCTI-GOV-BR",
language = "en",
targetfile = "Borma_response.pdf",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-384703-4.00228-8",
volume = "2 Vulnerability of Food Resources to Climate",
urlaccessdate = "23 maio 2024"
}