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Impacts Due to Deforestation

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Interactions of Energy and Climate

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Forests are very active parts of the earth-atmosphere boundary layer due to their stand characteristics, growth potential and high carbon storage or exchange. High radiation absorptivity and low infrared emission are causes of high net radiation income, which give rise to intensive water consumption. Runoff density and erosion are damped. Great aerodynamical roughness of forest crowns accelerates the turbulent exchange of mass and momentum.

Deforestation changes the functions of forest at the site and in the environment. Runoff and evaporation deplete soil moisture faster, temperature increase accelerates soil biomass metabolism. While timber harvesting in regularly managed forest withdraws carbon fixed from atmospheric CO2, deforestation of virgin forest, mainly by fires, releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere probably at the same rate as the CO2 fluxes due to burning fossil fuels (coal, oil or gas).

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  2. Umweltbundesamt, Berlin (West), Germany

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Baumgartner, A., Kirchner, M. (1980). Impacts Due to Deforestation. In: Bach, W., Pankrath, J., Williams, J. (eds) Interactions of Energy and Climate. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9111-8_16

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