AmazonFACE Research Project on the Effects of Climate Change on the Rainforest<\/p>\n
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The Amazon rainforest stores large amounts of the climate-damaging greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. However, deforestation, agricultural expansion and rising temperatures are pushing the storage capacities of the tropical forest to a limit. It is unclear how long the forest will remain a carbon sink. An international team is working together with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to answer this question. \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“AmazonFACE is the first FACE experiment in the tropics,” explains Professor Anja Rammig from the Technical University of Munich who is investigating land surface-atmosphere interactions as part of her professorship. She is collaborating on the international project with her Brazilian colleague David M. Lapola of the University of Campinas in Brazil.<\/p>\n
FACE stands for “Free Air CO2<\/sub> Enrichment”; it describes an experimental technical set-up, in which the ambient CO2<\/sub> concentration is artificially increased in the field. This enables realistic investigation of how future carbon dioxide concentrations will affect the ecosystem.<\/p>\n The AmazonFACE project will collect data for at least ten years in the Amazon rainforest approximately 70 kilometers north of Manaus in order to answer open questions: what happens if more and more CO2<\/sub> accumulates in the atmosphere? How much CO2<\/sub> can the Amazon rainforest store? Is there a limit?”<\/p>\n The Amazon FACE project: What impact does climate change have on the rainforest?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n