Encarni Montoya

Feb 14, 2024 | nature.com | Bernardo Flores |Encarni Montoya |Boris Sakschewski |Nathália Nascimento |Arie Staal |Richard A. Betts | +8 more

AbstractThe possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tipping point, inducing large-scale collapse, has raised global concern1,2,3. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests remained relatively resilient to climatic variability. Now, the region is increasingly exposed to unprecedented stress from warming temperatures, extreme droughts, deforestation and fires, even in central and remote parts of the system1.