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DOI	10.1029/2020JD033048
	Impacts of Protected Area Deforestation on Dry-Season Regional Climate in the Brazilian Amazon
	De Sales F.; Santiago T.; Biggs T.W.; Mullan K.; Sills E.O.; Monteverde C.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	2169897X
卷号	125 期号:16
英文摘要	Rainforest in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon is at risk due to increasing economic pressures and recent weakening of environmental agencies and legislation by the federal administration. This study examines the impacts of deforestation in protected areas on dry-season precipitation in the Brazilian state of Rondônia located in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon. Regional-climate model simulations indicate that clearing protected forests in Rondônia would result in substantial changes to the surface energy balance, including increased sensible and decreased latent heat flux. Consequent changes to low-level wind circulation would enhance moisture flux convergence and convection over the newly deforested areas, leading to enhanced rainfall in those areas. However, deforestation of protected areas would decrease dry season rainfall up to 30% in the existing agricultural region, with potentially important negative impacts on agricultural production. Additionally, our results indicates that following deforestation, the newly degraded areas will experience warmer and drier afternoons that could place the remaining natural vegetation under vapor deficit stress. ©2020. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
英文关键词	deforestation of Amazon protected areas; land use land cover changes in Amazonia; role of protected forest areas on the regional climate of Rondonia
语种	英语
来源期刊	Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/185824
作者单位	Geography Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States; Center for Climate and Sustainability Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States; Department of Economics, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States; Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	De Sales F.,Santiago T.,Biggs T.W.,et al. Impacts of Protected Area Deforestation on Dry-Season Regional Climate in the Brazilian Amazon[J],2020,125(16).
APA	De Sales F.,Santiago T.,Biggs T.W.,Mullan K.,Sills E.O.,&Monteverde C..(2020).Impacts of Protected Area Deforestation on Dry-Season Regional Climate in the Brazilian Amazon.Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,125(16).
MLA	De Sales F.,et al."Impacts of Protected Area Deforestation on Dry-Season Regional Climate in the Brazilian Amazon".Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125.16(2020).