{"id":36724,"date":"2022-06-02T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=36724"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:43:23","slug":"anguish-of-the-amazon-climate-tipping-points-and-the-loss-of-rainforest-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/anguish-of-the-amazon-climate-tipping-points-and-the-loss-of-rainforest-resilience.htm","title":{"rendered":"Anguish of the Amazon: Climate Tipping Points and the Loss of Rainforest Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When considering the health of sensitive environments such as the Amazon rainforest, Chris Boulton, Research Fellow at the Global Systems Institute at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/research\/gsi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Exeter<\/a>, emphasizes that appearances can be deceiving. \u201cI became interested in the research because of the idea of climate tipping points. In other words, a system under duress, like the Amazon rainforest, can seem fine, but it can undergo rapid decline in a short period of time.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-022-01287-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research<\/a> Boulton and his colleagues are doing involves finding the characteristics that show a movement towards a climate tipping point and then hopefully ameliorating or stopping that movement before it is too late and the tipping point for the system has already passed. \u201cOur goal is to quantify the movement towards a climate tipping point, measured as a loss of resilience in the system. Resilience is essentially how quickly a system recovers from perturbations, in this case droughts for example.\u201d says Boulton.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The Amazonian Climate Tipping Point<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The data Boulton and colleagues used to measure changes in Amazon resilience came from satellite images. Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD) was used to estimate monthly vegetation water content, while Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), a different vegetation index measuring the greenness of the plants, was used for comparison. Great care must be taken in interpreting the images, as an increase in greenness does not necessarily mean the forest has recovered. Sometimes green, i.e., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/environmental-measurements\/parameters\/water-quality\/algae-phytoplankton-chlorophyll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photosynthetic activity<\/a>,\u00a0does not indicate a healthy forest but instead suggests that there has been grass growth in its place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As far as what exactly in the images translated into a meaningful loss of resilience, Boulton said that each pixel or location has a VOD or NDVI value each month, from which a time series can be created and analyzed. The team measured \u2018lag 1 autocorrelation\u2019 or AR(1), a correlation between values that are one month apart. \u201cMeasuring this AR(1) over time and seeing an increase in it suggests that the system is becoming more sluggish in its response to perturbations and, as such, losing resilience,\u201d says Boulton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the Amazon still appears to recover when exposed to dramatic changes in rainfall and\/or temperature, it takes longer to return to equilibrium. \u201cIn the last 20 years, we have been seeing more droughts, and we have seen that the Amazon is restoring itself more slowly than it used to,\u201d says Boulton.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36728\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36728\" class=\"wp-image-36728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rainforest_figure.jpg\" alt=\"climate tipping points\" width=\"940\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rainforest_figure.jpg 1606w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rainforest_figure-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rainforest_figure-600x266.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rainforest_figure-768x340.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rainforest_figure-1536x680.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rainforest_figure-940x416.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">VOD AR(1) Kendall \u03c4 values. b, MAP from the CHIRPS dataset from 1991 to 2016. c, Distance from human land use (HLU) (Methods). In a\u2013c, MAP contours are shown, along with HLU grid cells (yellow). (Credit: Springer)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Threats to Vegetative Biodiversity<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Boulton and his team did not investigate whether certain tree species in the Amazon are being affected by logging, drought, fire, and other stressors more than other species, they did investigate the forest makeup and compared it to terrain primarily covered by grasses. Boulton\u2019s study only looked at pixels that had more than 80% broad leaf cover. \u201cOur impression is drought-resilient plants may start taking over, but this depends on how fast the resilience is being lost and whether or not the forest can \u2018keep up,\u2019\u201d says Boulton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking at the satellite data from 2005 and 2010, researchers previously found that the NDVI sprung back faster than in some other years, but they were disappointed to find that the green growth was primarily grasses, not trees. \u201cTrees react more slowly,\u201d notes Boulton. \u201cDuring heat waves, grasses may die faster but they also come back faster than trees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boulton and his team aren\u2019t the only ones who are tracking changes in the Amazon with growing alarm. While it is important to document the changes and try to understand them, studying them at this point may seem like an exercise in futility. However, Boulton believes that, despite the unrelenting stresses on the Amazon, people can do more than merely chronicle its demise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStudying the individual areas and their changes over time, we\u2019ve found that it\u2019s the urban areas and fields that are losing resilience faster,\u201d he says. \u201cThese are also the areas where people interfere with natural processes the most, where biodiversity is being threatened. These areas are where trees are being cut down, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/evapotranspiration.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evapotranspiration<\/a> processes are getting altered because of the trees being eliminated. Fires are also affecting these areas severely.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36733\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36733\" class=\"wp-image-36733 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Amazon_pexels-renan-bomtempo-772481.jpg\" alt=\"Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A healthy section of the Amazon rainforest. Fast-growing grasses are visible near the waterfall.\" width=\"940\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Amazon_pexels-renan-bomtempo-772481.jpg 940w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Amazon_pexels-renan-bomtempo-772481-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Amazon_pexels-renan-bomtempo-772481-600x352.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Amazon_pexels-renan-bomtempo-772481-768x451.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Credit: Renan Bomtempo via Pexels)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Amazon Logging<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boulton and his team are looking at local, regional, and global actions that could possibly be performed and would help the Amazon, even now. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing that the Amazon forest is not taking in as much carbon as it was in the past. This is because trees are being cut down, so there aren\u2019t enough trees to contribute to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/carbon-sinks-less-forested-land-can-be-as-effective-as-full-forests.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carbon sink<\/a>.\u201d Meanwhile, the drier climate means fires are more frequent and severe. \u201cLogging heavily contributes to resilience loss in the Amazon,\u201d Boulton emphasizes. \u201cAny reduction in logging would help, even now. It would help restore the carbon sink function and slow down or maybe even stop the loss of diversity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the near future, Boulton hopes to look into machine learning capabilities and how they could assist in detecting an Amazonian climate tipping point. \u201cWe want to see if we can detect something different or if the machine learning data can give us a different perspective,\u201d he says. \u201cUltimately, I\u2019m a mathematician, and I got into climate change because the math interested me. I wanted to do something useful with maths and statistics. This study, and adding the machine learning aspect, would help me accomplish that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boulton adds that, even though doom and gloom pervade social media on the topic of climate change and the Amazon, the situation is not as hopeless as it may seem. \u201cThis is an early warning, we still have a chance to do something,\u201d he emphasizes. \u201cSo even though you see doom and gloom on social media, it\u2019s positive in a way, because people are paying attention to it, and people haven\u2019t given up yet. It\u2019s not over, we can still change course.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur goal is to quantify the movement towards a tipping point, measured as a loss of resilience in the system. 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