Climate change, deforestation and the fate of Amazon
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Date of publication
March 2008
ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:DJ2012037711
Climate change, deforestation and the fate of Amazon. Understanding and mitigation the impact of the increasing population and global economic activities on tropical forests is one of the greatest challenges for scientists and policy makers. A summary of some of the latest findings and thinking on this topic has been reported by Malhi and colleagues in a recent paper published on Science. An overview and comments on this paper is herein proposed.