Climate and Human-Driven Impacts on Tropical Rainforests
A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 7220
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Interests: vegetation dynamics; biosphere–atmosphere interactions; water and carbon cycling; remote sensing/GIS; land use and land cover changes (LULCC); Amazonia
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Interests: remote sensing; fires; biomass burning; fire drivers; LULC changes; spatial analysis
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2. College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK
Interests: drought; vegetation phenology; land use; biodiversity and conservation
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Interests: climate change; remote sensing; irrigation; precipitation; meteorology; evapotranspiration
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Interests: forest management; forest ecology; plant physiology; drought stress; photosynthesis
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Interests: sustainability; sustainable development; sustainable agriculture; environmental management; sustainability management
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Dear Colleagues,
Tropical rainforests are a treasure trove of biodiversity. However, intensifying anthropic pressure and associated land cover changes have led to large-scale forest loss. These rainforests influence the terrestrial climate system through exchanges of energy, carbon dioxide, and water between the earth’s surface and the atmosphere. In addition to providing water vapor to the environment through evapotranspiration, influencing general circulation in the tropics, and contributing to regional precipitation, tropical rainforests play an important role in the global carbon cycle.
Climate-change-induced increases in temperature and reductions in precipitation are triggering forest degradation, with some parts of tropical rainforests already becoming a carbon source. Additionally, climate extremes are also impacting these forests, which are losing resilience. To develop a comprehensive understanding of the complex forest–climate extremes interactions, it is necessary to focus on different processes affecting biodiversity loss and ecosystem services.
We look forward to receiving your contributions to our joint Special Issue, “Climate and Human-Driven Impacts on Tropical Rainforests”, in Climate and Fire. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
New satellite data and tools to assess deforestation; forest fragmentation and natural recovery; belowground biogeochemistry; plant demography and ecophysiology; plant functional traits; aquifer-to-canopy hydrology; forest–atmosphere interactions; impacts of severe events such as droughts and fire; tolerance and resilience of tropical rainforests to extreme events, taking into consideration the drivers of land degradation and deforestation and further transitions under a climate change scenario.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Fire.
Dr. Gabriel de Oliveira
Dr. Guilherme A. V. Mataveli
Prof. Dr. Paulo Artaxo
Dr. Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Dr. Carlos A. C. dos Santos
Dr. Maquelle Garcia
Guest Editors
Hannah Stewart
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- land cover changes
- forest degradation
- ecophysiology
- fire and droughts
- remote sensing
- ground-based observations
- belowground biogeochemistry
- forest-atmosphere interactions
- water and carbon cycling
- greenhouse gas emissions
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