Lasers reveal steep decline in ecosystem function of degraded Amazon forests

Mongabay
Dec 16, 2020, 6:18 am190 pts
Every year, growing swaths of the Amazon rainforest are degraded by logging, fragmentation, and human-sparked fires. New research using airplane-based laser scanning of trees shows that degraded forests are hotter, drier, and more flammable than nearby “healthy” intact forests. But in periods of drought,…

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