Carbon and Water Cycling in a Changing Amazon

Trumbore’s project presents a new way of framing Amazon forest debates that challenges the “tipping point” concept, showing that resilience is possible if people curb deforestation and fires and adopt policies to limit future climate change.

Link to Research Project

Author

Susan Trumbore

Susan Trumbore is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena (Germany),
Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Chemistry and Geology at the Friedrich Schiller University
of Jena, and Professor of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine.

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Balzan Prize - 2020