The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

DM Lapola, P Pinho, J Barlow, LEOC Aragão… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Approximately 2.5× 106 square kilometers of the Amazon forest are currently degraded by
fire, edge effects, timber extraction, and/or extreme drought, representing 38% of all …

Responses of Terrestrial Evapotranspiration to Extreme Drought: A Review

QL He, JL Xiao, WY Shi - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) is crucial to the exchange of global carbon, water, and
energy cycles and links the hydrological and ecological processes. The frequency and …

Forest fragmentation and fires in the eastern Brazilian Amazon–Maranhão State, Brazil

CHL Silva-Junior, ATM Buna, DS Bezerra, OS Costa Jr… - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tropical forests provide essential environmental services to human well-being. In the world,
Brazil has the largest continuous area of these forests. However, in the state of Maranhão, in …

Importance in shifting circulation patterns for dry season moisture sources in the Brazilian Amazon

Y Mu, TW Biggs, C Jones - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Water is redistributed from evaporation sources to precipitation sinks through atmospheric
moisture transport. In the Brazilian Amazon, the spatial and temporal variability of dry …

ECOSTRESS reveals the importance of topography and forest structure for evapotranspiration from a tropical forest region of the andes

A Valdés-Uribe, D Hölscher, A Röll - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tropical forests are major sources of global terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET), but these
heterogeneous landscapes pose a challenge for continuous estimates of ET, so few studies …

Recent advances and challenges in monitoring and modeling of disturbances in tropical moist forests

J He, W Li, Z Zhao, L Zhu, X Du, Y Xu, M Sun… - Frontiers in Remote …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Tropical moist forests have been severely affected by natural and anthropogenic
disturbances, leading to substantial changes in global carbon cycle and climate. These …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal dynamics and controls of forest-floor evapotranspiration across a managed boreal forest landscape

Z Guo, H Zhang, E Martínez-García, X Lv… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2025 - Elsevier
Forest-floor evapotranspiration (ET ff) is a major pathway for water loss in terrestrial
ecosystems, often accounting for more than half of ecosystem evapotranspiration. However …

[HTML][HTML] Land cover change mitigated 20% of the total increased evapotranspiration in tropical Lancang-Mekong River Basin during 2001–2019

H Chen, Y Chen, LR Mansaray, L Li, S Wang - Journal of Hydrology …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region The tropical Lancang-Mekong River Basin (TLMRB), Southeast Asia.
Study focus Accurately assessing evapotranspiration (ET) change derived from land cover …

[HTML][HTML] The modelling of river water contamination by tailings mudflows: The case of phosphorus in the Paraopeba River basin

RCA Costa, RMB Santos, LFS Fernandes… - Case Studies in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was used to assess total phosphorus
concentrations (TOT-P) and fluxes (TOT_P) in the Paraopeba River basin, located in the …

[HTML][HTML] Asynchronous recovery of evaporation and transpiration following extreme snow damage in a subtropical forest

P Gnanamoorthy, J Zhao, A Chakraborty… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region: The Ailaoshan National Nature Reserve forest is a mountainous
water catchment area for the Lancang River basin and a subtropical ecological conservation …