Nature Communications (May 2021)

Deforestation reduces rainfall and agricultural revenues in the Brazilian Amazon

  • Argemiro Teixeira Leite-Filho,
  • Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho,
  • Juliana Leroy Davis,
  • Gabriel Medeiros Abrahão,
  • Jan Börner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22840-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Deforestation in the Amazon region has suggested to influence precipitation in a non-linear way. Here, the authors show that forest loss is associated with decreasing precipitation after a scale-dependent threshold is crossed, which can cause stress on agriculture if deforestation is expanded.