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Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Amazonian Deforestation Rate Continues to Increase
  
  
• Contributions of Fires to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels
  
  
• Amazonian Rainforests, Even Undisturbed by Humans, are Undergoing Change.
  
  
• Amazon Fires Cause Changes in Cloud Droplet Formation and Stratospheric Water and Particulate Levels
  
  
• Leaves Fall Off and Decay, but What do Roots do?
  
  
• Nitrogen for Enhanced Biosphere Uptake of CO₂
  
  
• Loss of Soil Carbon in a Warmer Climate
  
  
• Synergistic Effects of CO₂ and O₃
  
  
• Contribution of Major Wildfires to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
  
  
• Regulation of development and deforestation in Amazonia
  
  
• Deforestation raised cloud base.
  
  
• Importance of Maintaining Resilience in Ecosysems Seed Germination.
  
  
• Boreal Forest Area as a Source of Carbon Dioxide
  
  
• New Species Created at Rainforest Margins
  
  

Websites

• The Cost of US Forest-based Carbon Sequestration (PDF File)
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Roadmap for Sustainability: Weyerhaeuser's 2003 Citizenship and Environment Report
  
  
• Projeto PRODES
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Forests
  
  
• CO₂ emissions from land use change
  
  
• Forest composition - case study North America
  
  
• Global Forest Policy. From Linkages.
  
  
• Janetos, Anthony C., 1997: Do We Still Need Nature? Consequences 13.
  
  
• Robinson, Scott, 1997: The Case of the Missing Songbirds. Consequences 13.
  
  
• Tropical Deforestation of Rondonia, Brazil
  
  

Additional References

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• Guyette, R.P., and M.C. Stambaugh, 2004: Ancient oak climate proxies from the agricultural heartland. EOS, 85, 483.
  
  
• Pierce, J.L., G.A. Meyer, and A.J.T. Jull, 2004: Fire-induced erosion and millennial-scale climate change in northern ponderosa pine forests. Nature, 432, 87-90.
  
  
• Whitlock, C., 2004: Forests, fires and climate. Nature, 432, 28-29.
  
  
• Jacobson, M.Z., 2004: The short-term cooling but long-term global warming due to biomass burning. J. Climate, 17, 2909-2926.
  
  
• Westerling, A. L., and T. W. Swetnam, 2003: Interannual to decadal drougth and wildfire in the western United States. EOS, 84, 545.
  
  
• Hetherington, A. M., and F. I. Woodward, 2003: The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change. Nature, 424, 901-908.
  
  
• Aber, J., R. P. Neilson, S. McNulty, J. M. Lenihan, D. Bachelet, and R. J. Drapek, 2001: Forest Processes and Global Environmental Changes: Predicting the Effects of Individual and Multiple Stressors. BioScience, 51, 735-752.
  
  
• Brook, B. W., N. S. Sodhi, and P. K. L. Ng, 2003: Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore. Nature, 424, 420-423.
  
  
• Clark, J. S., and J. S. McLachlan, 2003: Stability of forest biodiversity. Nature, 423, 635-638.
  
  
• McDowell, N., 2002: Developing countries to gain from carbon-trading fund. Nature, 420, 4.
  
  
• Jackson, R.B., J.L.Banner, E. B. Jobbagy, W.T. Pockman, and D.H.Wall, 2002: Ecosystem carbon loss with woody plant invasion of grasslands. Nature, 418, 623-626.
  
  
• Warren, M. S., J. K. Hill, J. A. Thomas, J. Asher, R. Fox, B. Huntley, D. B. Roy, M. G. Teifer, S. Jeffcoate, P. Harding, B. Jeffcoate, S. G. Willis, J.N Greatorex-Davies, D. Moss, and C. D. Thomas, 2001: Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change. Nature, 414, 65-69.
  
  
• Chambers, J.Q., N. Higuchi, E.S. Tribuzy, and S.E. Trumbore, 2001: Carbon sink for a century.Nature, 410, 429.
  
  
• Laurance, W. F., M. A. Cochrane, S. Bergen, P. M. Fearnside, P. Delamonica, C. Barber, S. D' Angelo, and T. Fernandes, 2001: The future of the Brazilian Amazon. Science, 291, 438-439
  
  
• MacDonald, N. W., D. L. Randlett, and D. R. Zak, 1999: Soil warming and carbon loss from a Lake State Spodosol. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 63, 823-828.
  
  
• Winnet, Steven M., 1998: Potential effects of climate change on US forests: a review. Climate Research, 11, 39-49.
  
  
• Cash, J. H. C., and C. A. Nobre, 1997: Some results from ABRACOS. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 823-828
  
  
• Omasa, K., K. Kai, H. Taoda, Z. Uchijima, and M. Yoshino, 1996: Climate Change and Plants in East Asia. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, 215 pp.
  
  
• Keeley, Jon E. and C. J. Fotheringham, 1997: Trace Gas Emissions and Smoke-Induced Seed Germination. Science, 276, 1248-1250.
  
  
• Vitousek, P.M., 1991: Can Planted Forests Counteract Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide? Journal of Environmental Quality, 20, 348-354.
  
  
• Shukla, J., C. Nobre, and P. Sellers, 1990: Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change. Science, 247, 1322-1325.
  
  
• Williams, M., 2003: Deforesting the Earth - from Prehistory to Global Crisis. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 715 pp.
  
  
• Myre, G. and A. Myre, 2003: Uncertainties in Radiative Forcing Due to Surface Albedo Changes Caused by Land-use Changes. J. Climate, 16, 1511-1524.
  
  
• Forests and other wooded lands, technical atlas, from the World Food Summit homepage. (Download Adobe Acrobat Reader ).