Про леса, воду, осадки и изменение климата
вот новость от Горшкова и Макарьевой - новая полезная статья про необходимость ПЕРЕоценить роль и значение лесов - и в теме климата, и в теме выбросов СО2, и обеспечении осадков, и водного режима (что важно для сельского хозяйства).
This paper in the Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability calls for an increased focus on the (currently neglected) hydroclimatic function of forests.
Meine van Noordwijk, Sara Namirembe, Delia Catacutan, David Williamson, Aster Gebrekirstos, Pricing rainbow, green, blue and grey water: tree cover and geopolitics of climatic teleconnections, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 6, February 2014, Pages 41-47, ISSN 1877-3435, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2013.10.008.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343513001383
From the paper:
Rainfall patterns across Africa interact with land cover, with important teleconnections, relationships between conditions in one part of the globe and the climate of a non-neighbouring location elsewhere. Water shortage and excess linked to variable rainfall may well be the most immediate consequence of global climate change affecting human livelihoods while we get dangerously close to planetary boundaries in the Anthropocene [1 and 2]. Nearly all public discourse on the influence of changes in tree cover on climate, however, has become focused on the carbon emissions and their contribution to greenhouse gas effects rather than on relations with rainfall [3]. There is reason, as we discuss here, to return to a hydro-climatic perspective on tree effects, just when the expectations of carbo-climatic forest finance through REDD+ are starting to look grim [4].