{"id":14227,"date":"2020-03-12T17:53:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14227"},"modified":"2020-03-12T17:53:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:23:51","slug":"amazon-rainforest-may-collapse-within-decades-if-critical-point-is-reached-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/amazon-rainforest-may-collapse-within-decades-if-critical-point-is-reached-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon rainforest may collapse within decades if critical point is reached: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, large ecosystems, such as the Amazon rainforest, may collapse and disappear quickly, once a critical point in their destruction is reached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An ecosystem the size of the Amazon could collapse in approximately 50 years once a tipping point had been reached.&nbsp;<\/li><li>For a system the size of the Caribbean coral reefs, collapse could occur in 15 years once triggered.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amazon rainforest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.<\/li><li>The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil (60%), followed by Peru Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Caribbean Coral reefs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Most Caribbean coral reefs are fringing reefs.However, other important coral reefs are present in the Caribbean- Example:The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, stretching from the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico to the Bay Islands of Honduras, is the second-largest barrier reef system in the world.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/NQyjYNoyv8Lg1BRMtU9SFnhF07cgHUkwir1RX9yT3qSO5zZ4VzCS9D-ul4bA-zjKE6Fuak5i5Y1_ImTJLu4B_R3y0JU4-cYaYqkfgNRJeHFhyqk28KJq3H8O0VR-UNgJMurdgeqN\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, large ecosystems, such as the Amazon rainforest, may collapse and disappear quickly, once a critical point in their destruction is reached. Facts: Key takeaways: An ecosystem the size of the Amazon could collapse in approximately 50 years once a tipping point had been reached.&nbsp;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/amazon-rainforest-may-collapse-within-decades-if-critical-point-is-reached-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon rainforest may collapse within decades if critical point is reached: Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4940],"class_list":["post-14227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-amazon-rainforest","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704819451},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}