Rate of tree die-off in Amazon higher than conventionally believed

Amazon rainforest failing to recover after droughts (12/24/2012) The impact of a major drought in the Amazon rainforest in 2005 persisted far longer than previously believed, raising questions about the world's largest tropical forest to cope with the expected impacts of climate change, reports a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Some Amazon trees more than 8 million years old (12/14/2012) Some Amazon rainforest tree species are more than eight million years old found a genetic study published in the December 2012 edition of Ecology and Evolution . Advanced technology reveals massive tree die-off in remote, unexplored parts of the Amazon (12/12/2012) Severe drought conditions in 2010 appear to have substantially increased tree mortality in the Western Amazon, a region thought largely immune from the worst effects of change...

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@RnfrstAll_se » 19 Feb '13, 1pm
Stormar och torka gör att träd i Amazonas dör 7-10 procent snabbare än man tidigare trott. [link]
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Carbon release, storage by rainforests may increase by 50b tons for each 1C of warming in the tropics - [link]
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