Human Or Climate Interference Alters Second Succession

Deforestation plays a big role in global warming. The “land use connection” referred to as “land use changes” is a huge contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. Land use change involves all the destructions of land in order to produce and distribute food. Every year rainforests are demolished for agriculture intentions. “The biggest factors are the destruction of vital rainforests through burning and clearing and the elimination of wetlands” (Lappe 753). Deforestation of these habitats leads to the discharge carbon dioxide into the environment.

Brazil’s rainforests and America’s rainforests are great examples of the negative effect that deforestation has on these specific areas. One of the rising challenges in our rapidly growing world is the destruction of rainforests and how it is slowly ruining the world that we live in. Deforestation has a lot of destructive impacts on the environment that is surrounding us, one of the most important being its effect on the climate. The fast rise in the world’s population, calling for high demand of resources, is only hastening the effects of deforestation, which can hopefully be put an end to through the enforcement of a handful of simple, key, and sustainable solutions.

Rainforests are known to be critically important for human wellbeing and are often referred to as the lungs of the planet. This is because, rainforests not only absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen that all animals depend on for survival but due to the fact they also help stabilize climate, provide a home to many plants and animals, maintain the water cycle, protect the human population against flood, drought & erosion, and are a source for medicines and foods. Rainforest also happen to support tribal people and are known to be an interesting place to visit. Abiotic factors are referred to as non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems (Dictionary.com, 2017). Some examples of abiotic factors in the Amazon forest include water cycle, temperature and carbon cycle. Additionally, the living components of an ecosystem also referred to as the biotic factors (Dictionary.com, 2017) are elements of the Amazon forest. This includes the organisms living in the ecosystem and the present food chain. Altogether, these are factors and components that are seen in the Amazon forest, despite the deteriorating status of the rainforest due to human activities within the ecosystem. With these activities currently occurring, the amazon rainforest could potentially be eliminated if action is not taken.

As parts to of the world still continue to commit acts of deforestation in the rainforest areas, at the same time, the climate on earth also becomes affected by these actions, too. The trees in the rainforest are essential to the water cycle (Szalay). The water cycle is the movement of water on the earth (“Summary of the Water Cycle”). The trees in the water cycle act in the process of evapotranspiration. The word evapotranspiration is evaporation and transpiration together (Briney). Evaporation is when water converts from liquid into a gas or vapor (Briney). Transpiration, however, is when a plant or tree absorbs the water from their roots and is evaporated back into the atmosphere through its leaves, stems, or flowers (Briney). The water evaporated from the trees and plants contribute to the rainfall in the forest (Briney). In the article The Effects of Deforestation in Amazonia, author Harald Sioli states, “With the reduction of rainwater re-evaporating from the original forest, the rate of its recycling will also diminish” (200). If the process of evapotranspiration decreases due to deforestation, the amount of rainfall will also decrease. The rainforests like the Amazon will change in climate and become dry and could possibly cause more forest fires due to the reduction of precipitation in the rainforest (Shukla, Nobre, & Sellers).

“The role of humans in the deforestation of the world's forests is considerable and extensive.” Says Rhett Butler. Humans affect the rainforest many inadequate ways, such as deforestation, and wildfires. Deforestation

The biodiversity of the tropical rainforest is so immense that less than 1 percent of its millions of species have been studied by scientists for their active constituents and their possible uses. When an acre of tropical rainforest is lost, the impact on the number of plant and animal species lost and their possible uses is staggering. Scientists estimate that we are losing more than 137 species of plants and animals every single day because of rainforest deforestation.

Tropical Rainforest make up a total of 6% of all of earth’s land surface. Not surprisingly though, it produces 40% of all of earth’s oxygen. There are 4 levels to the tropical rainforest; emergent, upper canopy, understory, and forest floor. The rainforest received it’s name because of it’s self-watering system. Plants release water into the atmosphere through transpiration. This moisture usually has no place to go which creates a thick cloud cover over the rainforest causing the humid, hot, atmosphere. In the the rainforests are large rivers that branch off into smaller rivers that help to provide water for the entire forest.

In this article we are presented with the effects of fire and wildlife dynamics in Western Amazonia. This a very intriguing article written by researchers at the Institution Technology Department of Biological Sciences in Melbourne, Florida. Researches both on local and regional scales were able to ascertain the question, if bamboo forests have historically covered an area as extensive as its current distributions? During the study, the intrigued wanted to uncover how the modern extent of bamboo could have resulted from the historical increases of fire presence and whether past invasions of bamboo dominance is persistent to the landscape and future state of Western Amazonia. Through the use of Landsat imagery, field surveys and other means of technology, these researchers were able to show the impacts of fire on bamboo in major cities of Los Amigos, Cocha Cashu, Peru, and Acre, Brazil.

Inevitably the impact could reach out outside the locale, influencing vital rural zones and different watersheds. At the 1998 worldwide atmosphere arrangement meeting in Buenos Aires, Britain, refering to an irritating learn at the Institute of Ecology in Edinburgh, proposed the Amazon rainforest could be lost in 50 years because of movements in precipitation examples instigated by an Earth-wide temperature boost and land transformation; therefore, numerous individuals trust that to counter deforestation, individuals essentially need to plant more trees and deal with the earth; on the other hand, if a monstrous replanting exertion would help to mitigate the issue deforestation brought about, it would not understand all of them. This arrangement of activity will encourage restoring the environment administrations gave by woodlands, including carbon stockpiling, water cycling and natural life territory; furthermore, diminish the development of carbon dioxide in the climate and the revamp of untamed life living

The trees circulate much of the water in a rainforest ecosystem. The high level of transpiration off their leaves causes frequent precipitation. When deforestation occurs, drought conditions make the regions particularly susceptible to wildfires, especially because many of the mechanisms of deforestation involve slashing and burning. In 2005 alone, drought in the Western Amazon led to a wildfire 11 kilometers long. This fire caused more than US $100 million in damages. Dry conditions in the Amazon are a new phenomenon caused by the increased deforestation (Fraser 2014).

To collect data on the primary succession as new sand dunes form from the waters of Lake Michigan. To examine hypotheses relating to the progression of succession through facilitation and other species interactions and to examine how biotic and abiotic rigor change through time as succession proceeds. To further examine these concepts, we have gathered and conducted five tests. Our first experiment dealt with soil development, to show how soil changes and developments have advanced throughout the dunes. A second experiment has been taken to show the variations in diversity among the five dunes. The third was to examine percent coverage amongst stages to see how the species are influenced by their environment. A fourth to examine the proportions of grasses and forbs to understand the properties of grasses on late succession. Last, we examined how counts of focal species change with dune age among herbaceous species and woody species.

Rainforests have been declining rapidly over the last few decades. There are various factors responsible for this decline, resulting in serious impacts on the environment and the economy. Critically discuss the causes of deforestation and solutions to it.

Nowadays deforestation is the one of the most important and controversial environmental issues in the world. Deforestation is cutting down, clearing away or burning trees or forests. Particularly tropical rainforests are the most waning type of forests because of its location in developing countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, India, central African countries and Brazil. Deforestation rate in those regions is high enough to worry about, because of large economic potential of forest areas. As the result of causes such as agriculture land expansion, logging for timber, fire blazing and settling infrastructure there might be serious impacts in future. For instance, extinction of endemic species of animals and plants which will be

Many rainforests in the Central and Southern America have been burnt down to make space for cattle farming, which supplies cheap beef for North America, China and Russia. It is estimated that for every pound of meat that is produced, 200 square feet of rainforest is being destroyed. The causes of rain forest destruction are agriculture and in drier areas, fuelwood collection. The main cause of forest degradation is logging. Mining and industrial development also have a serious impact. Tourism is becoming a larger threat to the forests. Wildfire could cause it and putting too much farm animals on farms which causes them to finish the food. The future consequences if rainforest destruction is not addressed are a loss of habitat for millions of species. Eighty percent of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes. Many former forest lands can quickly become deserts, more extreme temperature swings that can be harmful to plants and animals, and increased speed and severity of global

The rate of deforestation is increasing and the tropical forests are falling at approximately 140,000 acres per day (Miller & Tangley 1991: xvi). The forests are crucial to the environment. They are important in minimizing erosion, providing a stable habitat for many animals, and helping to keep the environment clean. Deforestation has devastating effects, not only on the biological dependents within the depleted forests, but also on the surrounding human-populated communities.