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Tropical Forests and Climate

Tropical forests affect climate, and the removal of the forests will change climate. Or not? This book discusses basic questions on how far, if at all, tropical deforestation leads to climatic change. The question of this uncertainty is particularly addressed. One important consequence of the uncertainties of whether deforestation affects climate is how scientific findings best illuminate the policy-making process.

... changesoftemperatureand especially rainfall.The climatic changes had
aprofound effectonthe vegetation, especiallyinthe mountains, but datafrom the
tropical lowlands are now increasing and show that the effecton lowland
vegetation may also have been considerable. Very recent data fromEastern
Brasil (Carajas,see postscriptum) indicatethatthe rainfallin that areawas lowered
atleast 500 mm during several dry phasesof the Late Pleistocene, savanna
vegetation replacing forest.