The dense rain forest of the Republic of the Congo (Image: Michael Nichols/National Geographic/Getty)
BY THE end of the century, up to 82 per cent of today’s tropical forests could be damaged by a combination of climate change and local destruction.
Gregory Asner of Stanford University in California, and colleagues, tried to calculate where the effects of climate change, logging and other causes of deforestation will impact upon forest ecosystems.
They ran 16 different climate models up until the year 2098 and used a vegetation model to work out which types of plants could survive in each area. The…
