Amazon Rainforest, link to Carbon and Water Cycle
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- Created on: 12-05-21 11:35
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- How the Amazon Rainforest is linked to the Carbon and Water Cycle
- Amazon is one of the Largest rainforests
- Covers 2.1 million square miles of land
- Home to 20 million people
- Carbon
- Estimated store between 80 and 120 billion tonnes of carbon.
- Negative feedback loop - rising atmospheric levels of CO2
- Dead animals and trees emit an estimated 1.9 billion tons of carbon
- In a normal year the forest absolbes around 2.2 Billion tonnes of CO2
- Water
- Average rainfall across the Amazon is 2,300 mm annually.
- Only 30% of the rainfall reaches the sea, the rest enters a never ending loop
- In some areas of the northwest portion of the Amazon basin annual rainfall can exceed 6000mm3
- Half the rainfall in some areas never reach the ground - intercepted by forest and re-evaporated into the atmosphere
- Around 30% of anthropogenic carbon emissions come from burning rainforests alone.
- Additional evaporation occurs from ground and river surfaces
- Amazon is one of the Largest rainforests
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