With support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, grantees at the Woods Hole Research Center published a study that examines past, present and future influences of land cover and land use. The study focuses on seasonal carbon and water balances of the Cerrado environment.

The study ultimately showed that historical landscape conversions reduce biomass by about 50% and evapotranspiration (ET) by about 25%.

Read the study abstract online here

 

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