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DEFORESTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The removal of trees
Synonyms:
deforestation; disforestation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("deforestation" is a kind of...):
baring; denudation; husking; stripping; uncovering (the removal of covering)
Derivation:
deforest (remove the trees from)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being clear of trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("deforestation" is a kind of...):
environmental condition (the state of the environment)
Derivation:
deforest (remove the trees from)
Context examples:
From 2015 to 2016, Bahia was the state most severely hit by deforestation—12,288 hectares cleared, 207% higher than the previous 3,997 hectares of native vegetation devastated.
(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)
This is the largest annual deforestation figure since 2008, equivalent to 128 football fields of forest being slashed every hour according to IPAM.
(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)
On the whole, tropical deforestation generates large economic losses and subsequent erosion from conversion was not even factored into the analysis.
(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)
The world's forests are increasingly taking up more carbon, partially offsetting the carbon being released by the burning of fossil fuels and by deforestation in the tropics, according to a new study.
(World's forests increasingly taking up more carbon, National Science Foundation)
While history has played an important role in the distribution and diversity of fish species in the Amazon basin, climate change, deforestation and building of power dams could alter such dynamics even more.
(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)
Deforestation rates from other cities in southern Bahia considered, like Porto Seguro and Ilhéus, some 30% of the biome was destroyed during the period in the region.
(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)
Since 2004, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has been reduced by more than 70%, after the second-highest peak ever since it has been monitored (27,772 km²).
(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)
Even the areas identified in the study as suitable for deforestation, they are full of critically endangered species.
(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)
This capacity of intact forests to act as carbon sinks suggests that additional carbon dioxide in the air may be fertilizing those forests, allowing them to grow and store carbon more quickly, although changes in precipitation, temperature and deforestation could also be playing important roles.
(World's forests increasingly taking up more carbon, National Science Foundation)
Authors also found indications that the rise in deforestation and the construction of dams could threaten the natural dynamics of fish dispersal.
(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)
