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  1. 27 de may. de 2024 · Deforestation is the clearing or thinning of forests by humans for various purposes, such as crops, grazing, and logging. It has serious environmental and social impacts, such as habitat loss, climate change, and biodiversity loss.

    • Effects

      Deforestation has important global consequences. Forests...

    • Ecological Restoration

      ecological restoration, the process of repairing sites in...

    • Reforestation

      reforestation, the conversion of previously forested land...

    • Deforestation

      Deforestation is the clearing, or cutting down, of forests....

  2. Hace 2 días · Deforestation results in habitat destruction which in turn leads to biodiversity loss. Deforestation also leads to extinction of animals and plants, changes to the local climate, and displacement of indigenous people who live in forests.

  3. 27 de may. de 2024 · Deforestation is a major contributor to climate change, both through the release of carbon dioxide stored in trees and the disruption of ecosystems’ ability to sequester carbon. Forests act as carbon sinks, absorbing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

  4. Hace 6 días · Impact on Ecosystems. Forests are complex ecosystems that provide a wide range of services essential for life on Earth. The removal of trees and other vegetation disrupts these services in several ways: Soil Degradation. Erosion: Trees and their root systems stabilize the soil, preventing erosion.

  5. 8 de may. de 2024 · The tally isn’t even close: Almost 99 percent of all land that’s been deforested over the last 10,000 years has been converted to agriculture. Nowadays, farmland expansion is responsible for “only” 88 percent of deforestation around the world.

  6. 12 de may. de 2024 · Biodiversity loss, the reduction in an area’s biodiversity (the number of genes, species, individual organisms, or ecosystems) expressed by species loss, population declines and reductions in the genetic diversity within a species, and the collapse of biological communities.

  7. 8 de may. de 2024 · Conversely, the effect of deforestation on disease does not depend on whether the habitat has been destroyed and allowed to regrow (e.g., clearcutting, second growth forests, etc.) or whether it...