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Impacts of deforestation on Amazonian river ecosystems could be far-reaching
2014-12-18 21:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Vast areas of the Amazon forest are being destroyed for agricultural uses, mainly industrial-scale soybean crops, and turned into pasture land for livestock. The riparian forests surrounding streams have not been exempt from this trend. And though headwater streams in the Brazilian Amazon are valuable aquatic ecosystems, little research has been done to determine how deforestation is impacting the streams environmental integrity and ability to function as natural habitats. That is, until now....
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