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Quantifying the net contribution of the historical Amazonian deforestation to climate change
Description: Assessing the net contribution of past tropical deforestation to the growth in atmospheric CO2 is challenging. These researchers therefore addressed this lack of data by constructing two maps of potential AGB (above ground biomass data) with a machine learning algorithm trained on the relationship between AGB and climate and topography in intact forest landscapes of the Amazon basin. [Source: Geophysical Research Letters]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063497
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Source: Geophysical Research Letters
Publish Date: 4/28/2015
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