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Learn how climate change affects the Congo Basin, the second largest tropical rainforest in the world, and its biodiversity, people and resources. Find out the projected temperature and precipitation changes, the impacts on agriculture and vegetation, and the threats to migratory species.
3 lis 2024 · The Congo basin is home to the second largest rainforest in the world. The equatorial climate that prevails over a significant part of the Congo basin is coextensive with a dense evergreen forest. The Congolese forest spreads out over the central depression, extending continuously from about 4° N to about 5° S; it is interrupted only by ...
1 wrz 2024 · The Congo Basin is recognized for its high rate of primate vulnerability to climate change impacts, considering factors such as its species richness, their current endangered status and projected climate change trends (Graham et al., 2016).
6 kwi 2019 · The Congo Basin is one of three key areas of tropical convection and contains the planet’s second largest rainforest. Understanding how global warming might change its climate is crucial, particularly during the dry seasons, when rainfall amounts currently bring the rainforest boundaries close to the threshold of viability.
The Congo is the world's second largest river basin and home to 120 million people. Understanding the cycling of water, sediments, and nutrients is important as the region faces climatic and anthropogenic change.
28 lut 2022 · The climate regime in the Congo River basin directly affects the livelihood of 75 million people living in the watershed and the health of one of the planet’s largest rainforests and carbon sink with direct links to the global climate.
27 lut 2023 · The Congo Basin is home to the world’s largest tropical peatlands, along with Brazil and Indonesia. The peat swamp forest of the Congo Basin stores around 29 billion tons of carbon – approximately equivalent to three years’ worth of global greenhouse gas emissions – while the Basin as a whole absorbs nearly 1.5 billion tons of carbon ...
