Land Use Change Increases Streamflow Across the Arc of Deforestation in Brazil

Nearly half of recent decades' global forest loss occurred in the Amazon and Cerrado (tropical savanna) biomes of Brazil, known as the arc of deforestation. Despite prior analysis in individual river basins, a generalizable empirical understanding of the effect of deforestation on streamflow ac...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Geophysical research letters 2018-04, Vol.45 (8), p.3520-3530
Hauptverfasser:	Levy, M. C., Lopes, A. V., Cohn, A., Larsen, L. G., Thompson, S. E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agricultural development Amazon Climate Climate change Climate effects Complex systems Data analysis Data processing Deforestation Deforestation effects Dry season Empirical analysis Flow rates Flow velocity History hydrology Identification methods Land use land use change Low flow Masks Policies Rain Rainfall Rainforests Remote sensing River basins River flow Rivers Satellites Spaceborne remote sensing Stream discharge Stream flow Streamflow changes Temperature Temperature variations Tropical climate
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