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Climate change effects on tropical regions includes changes in marine ecosystems, human livelihoods, biodiversity, degradation of tropical rainforests and effects the environmental stability in these areas. Climate change is characterized by alterations in temperature, precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events.
Moreover, it suggests that standing tropical forests help cool the average global temperature by more than 1 °C or 1.8 °F. [24] [25] Deforestation of tropical forests may risk triggering tipping points in the climate system and of forest ecosystem collapse which would also have effects on climate change. [26] [27] [28] [29]
Since the tropical rainforests are the most diverse ecosystems on Earth [217] [218] and about 80% of the world's known biodiversity can be found in tropical rainforests, [219] [220] removal or destruction of significant areas of forest cover has resulted in a degraded [221] environment with reduced biodiversity.
Some leaves in tropical forests from South America to South East Asia are getting so hot they may no longer be able to photosynthesize, with big potential consequences for the world’s forests ...
The Amazon rainforest is a massive area, twice the size of India and sprawling across eight countries and one territory. The Amazon biome has lost more than 85 million hectares (211 million acres ...
Borneo rainforest. Some tropical forest types are difficult to categorize. While forests in temperate areas are readily categorized on the basis of tree canopy density, such schemes do not work well in tropical forests. [1] There is no single scheme that defines what a forest is, in tropical regions or elsewhere.
Tropical deciduous dry forests are easier to clear and burn and are more suitable for agriculture and cattle ranching than tropical rainforests; consequently, less than 0.1% of dry forests in Central America's Pacific Coast and less than 8% in Madagascar remain from their original extents. [10]
Deforestation in the Maranhão state, Brazil, in July 2016. The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km 2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest.It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet, representing over half of all rainforests.