Research indicates that falls in Northern Hemisphere aerosol pollution will bring more frequent drought to the Amazonian rainforest.
... river basins. For instance, ongoing conversion of Amazonian rainforest into farmland may increase outwash of nutrients; in some regions, future warming could greatly increase rainfall ...
... and precipitation explains, for example, why rain in the Amazonian rainforest is frequent, short-lived and occurs where the water has also evaporated. There the air is very clean ...
A team of archaeologists on Tuesday announced they had discovered a fortified citadel in the remote Amazonian rainforest of northeast Peru that appears to be from the pre-Inca era.
... in the tropics, chances will be good that we are effectively burning rainforests in our gas tanks," she warned. Policies ... said, "while environmental groups and some scientists point to Amazonian rainforests or Southeast Asian peat swamps ...
... depletion.More than 155,000 square kilometres of Amazonian rainforest in Brazil have been cleared for timber or burned ... are destroyed — a rate of four football fields every minute. The Amazonian rainforest is one of the most biodiverse regions ...
... wins. But while researching ant-plants in the Amazonian rainforests of Peru, Douglas Yu of the University of East Anglia and Glenn Shepard of Sao Paulo ...
... .com) -- Looking for the answer to why the tropical Amazonian rainforest has more bird, plant and insect life than Vancouver Island`s temperate rainforest has been like looking for a needle in a haystack. That is until ...
... previous focus on the more recent history. The vast Amazonian rainforest is arguably the most species-rich terrestrial ... day biodiversity in the Amazonian region. Though scientists have long suspected that the Andes influenced rainforest composition ...
... . Although researchers have long suspected that the diversity of the Amazonian rainforest was affected by the Andes, the causal links have been unclear until now, and there have been a wide range of scientific theories ...
... Medical Xpress) -- Hidden away in the Amazonian rainforest a small tribe have successfully managed what so many dream of being able to do to ignore ...
... , migration patterns, such as those adopted by birds all across the Amazonian rainforest, have not been thought to play an important role in the spreading of beneficial genes through a population. Researchers ...
... changes in the productivity of tropical forests, especially the Amazonian rainforests. However, according to the new study, their model failed miserably when tested against comparable ground ...
... Mann via Flickr To the multitude of arguments for protecting rainforest biodiversity, here's a new addition: An Amazonian fungus could eat ...
(Phys.org) -- Scientists in London are predicting that for many species it may take several generations after deforestation of the Amazonian rainforests in Brazil before they become extinct.
