Barrage of droughts weakens Amazon’s capacity to bounce back, study finds

Mongabay
Dec 15, 2021, 5:52 am265 pts
Severe droughts over the past two decades have affected the resilience of the Amazon Rainforest, a new study shows, with stretches of affected forest taking between one and three years to recover their usual growth rate. The work by researchers from Brazil and Portugal focused on an analysis of primary…

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