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The Economics of Tropical Rainforest Preservation
2021Tropical forests are among the most biodiverse areas on Earth. They contribute to ecosystem functions, including regulating water flow and maintaining one of the most important carbon sinks on the planet, and provide resources for important economic activities, such as timber and nontimber products and fish and other food.
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2018
Tropical rainforests are located around and near the equator, where they undergo a climatic pattern that consists of warm average temperatures and heavy rainfalls. Their current distribution over tropical America, Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea, and more scantily in Australia, results from successive fragmentations that occurred ...
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Tropical rainforests are located around and near the equator, where they undergo a climatic pattern that consists of warm average temperatures and heavy rainfalls. Their current distribution over tropical America, Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea, and more scantily in Australia, results from successive fragmentations that occurred ...
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Will Tropical Rainforests Survive Climate Change?
2015Tropical forests account for over 50 % of the global forested area and forest carbon stock. Although the deforestation rate is tending to decline, forests are confronted with climate change, which could profoundly modify their functioning. The migration of species that took place during the Pleistocene is no longer possible because human activities ...
Hérault, Bruno, Gourlet-Fleury, Sylvie
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Impacts of warming on tropical lowland rainforests
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2011Before the end of this century, tropical rainforests will be subject to climatic conditions that have not existed anywhere on Earth for millions of years. These forests are the most species-rich ecosystems in the world and play a crucial role in regulating carbon and water feedbacks in the global climate system; therefore, it is important that the ...
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The archaeology of Australia's tropical rainforests
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2007Abstract Archaeological research in the Australia's northeast Queensland rainforest and margins has revealed a human antiquity of at least 8000 cal year BP within the rainforest and at least 30,000 years on the western edge. Rainforest occupation before 2000 cal year BP was at generally very low levels, after which time settlement of this environment
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Phytochemistry of Australia's Tropical Rainforest
2021Rare, unique and irreplaceable – precious native rainforests occupy a precariously small part of Australia while retaining a remarkable level of both biological and chemical diversity unrivalled by any other ecosystem. Australia's ancient history and traditions are intimately intertwined with the rainforest plants that humans have utilised as both food
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The Tropical Rainforest Crisis
1998‘Crisis’ is an overworked term in the English language. It is used to describe everything from the smallest of domestic problems (the babysitter cancels at the last minute) to the largest, most dramatic of global events (Bosnia). The term implies that the events identified as crises require urgent and careful attention demonstrating an individual’s or ...
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Pleistocene humans in tropical rainforest
Science, 2015Human Paleoecology The tropical rainforest environment is nutritionally poor and tricky to navigate as compared to open habitats. This poses challenges for human subsistence. There has been little evidence to suggest that human populations relied on rainforest resources before the start of the Holocene, 10,000 years ago. Roberts et al. analyzed earlier
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The rehabilitation of the tropical rainforests’ ecosystems
1993The concern over depletion of the tropical rainforests has resulted in an increasing emphasis toward the programmes in rehabilitation in an effort to maintain the ecological balance within the ecosystem. In Malaysia, the loss of the natural tropical forest is due to harvesting of its timbers and conversion into lands for the purpose of agriculture ...
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