Reuters: Amazon forest may get drier, but survive warming

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http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5187OV20090209

Amazon forest may get drier, but survive warming

Mon Feb 9, 2009 5:44pm EST

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO (Reuters) - Amazonian forests may be less vulnerable to dying off from global warming than feared because many projections underestimate rainfall, a study showed.

The report, by scientists in Britain, said Brazil and other nations in the region would also have to act to help avert any irreversible drying of the eastern Amazon, the region most at risk from climate change, deforestation and fires.

"The rainfall regime in eastern Amazonia is likely to shift over the 21st century in a direction that favors more seasonal forests rather than savannah," they wrote in this week's U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, released on Monday.

Seasonal forests have wet and dry seasons rather than the current rainforest, which is permanently drenched. That shift could favor new species of trees, other plants and animals.

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[jwirr]

1. And as the rain forest gets drier so do we. I would assume that they

will aslo have more forest fires.