Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks

Relatively little is understood about seasonal effect of climate change on the Amazon rainforest. Here, the authors show that Amazon forest loss in response to dry-season intensification during the last glacial period was likely self-amplified by regional vegetation-rainfall feedbacks.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Delphine Clara Zemp, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, Marina Hirota, Vincent Montade, Gilvan Sampaio, Arie Staal, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Anja Rammig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14681