Land Use Change Increases Streamflow Across the Arc of Deforestation in Brazil

Land Use Change Increases Streamflow Across the Arc of Deforestation in Brazil

Abstract Nearly half of recent decades' global forest loss occurred in the Amazon and Cerrado (tropical savanna) biomes of Brazil, known as the arc of deforestation. Despite prior analysis in individual river basins, a generalizable empirical understanding of the effect of deforestation on stre...

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Main Authors: M. C. Levy, A. V. Lopes, A. Cohn, L. G. Larsen, S. E. Thompson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-04-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
Subjects:
deforestation
land use change
Amazon
hydrology
climate change
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076526
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