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Evaluating carbon and water fluxes and stocks in Brazil under changing climate and refined regional scenarios for changes in land use

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Autor(es):
de Castro, Aline Anderson ; von Randow, Celso ; von Randow, Rita de Cassia Silva ; Bezerra, Francisco Gilney Silva
Número total de Autores: 4
Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
Fonte: FRONTIERS IN CLIMATE; v. 4, p. 15-pg., 2022-09-16.
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Climate change and land-use change can alter the role of natural vegetation as a sink or source of atmospheric carbon. In this work, we evaluate the response of water and carbon fluxes and stocks in Brazilian biomes as a proxy for ecosystem services of regional climate regulation under two contrasting future scenarios: a sustainable development scenario, where some deforested areas are restored by vegetation regrowth combined with a low representative concentration pathway, and a pessimistic scenario, where there is still high deforestation rates and strong climate change. We used refined regional scenarios for land-use change in Brazil, together with climate projections of the HADGEM2-ES model for RCPs 2.6 and 8.5 to drive a land surface model and assess possible future impacts in surface fluxes. Our results show that drying climate and shifts of natural vegetation into anthropogenic land use might shift part of upperstory biomass into understory biomass, which can be more vulnerable to dry events. The simulations also show that climate change appears to drive most of the water balance changes compared to land-use change, especially over the Amazon. (AU)

Processo FAPESP: 17/22269-2 - Transição para sustentabilidade e o nexo água-agricultura-energia: explorando uma abordagem integradora com casos de estudo nos biomas Cerrado e Caatinga
Beneficiário:Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa de Pesquisa sobre Mudanças Climáticas Globais - Temático
Processo FAPESP: 22/01655-0 - Fluxos de gases de efeito estufa na Amazônia combinando torres de fluxo e modelagem da superfície terrestre
Beneficiário:Aline Anderson de Castro
Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado
Processo FAPESP: 20/15230-5 - Centro de Pesquisa e Inovação de Gases de Efeito Estufa - RCG2I
Beneficiário:Julio Romano Meneghini
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa Centros de Pesquisa em Engenharia