Tropical Rainforest Climate Change

So any changes in the size of the global rainforest can have a big impact on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Tropical rainforest climate change. Current and Future Impacts to Tropical Rainforests. Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change Second Edition Mark B. Science economics and politics are now aligned to support a major international effort to protect tropical forests.

Flenley Department of Biological Sciences Geography Programme Florida Institute of Technology. Forests in tropical and temperate regions have a cooling effect whereas boreal forests found in high northern latitudes make their climate warmer. Forests and the climate are inextricably linked.

In some cases tropical rainforests are expected to have higher storm intensity and like temperate rainforests. Global responses to climate change and local tropical land-use At a global scale societal and economic responses to cli-mate change can magnify human pressures on tropical forestsSpurredby risingpetroleum prices andtheneedto mitigate greenhouse gas emissions crop-based biofuel production has increased rapidly in recent years 5455. Bush Professor John R.

On top of that various sources state that it was because of a sudden change in weather from wet and cold to hot and dry that caused some of the largest trees in the rainforest to die off and release carbon exposing the ground layers of the forest which was normally shaded by the forests upper layer known as the canopy and this caused animals to move out from their natural habitats. Forests play a role in mitigating climate change by absorbing the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere from human activities chiefly the burning of fossil fuels for energy and other. Flenley and William D.

Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time-averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. All forests make the world wetter by sending a huge amount of water vapour into the atmosphere via evapotranspiration.

Nature Geosci 6 268273 2013. Yet with every passing year climate change cuts into tropical forests capacity to operate as a safe natural carbon capture and storage system. We develop bioclimatic models of spatial distribution for the regionally endemic rainforest vertebrates and use these models to predict the effects of climate warming on species distributions.