{"id":584354,"date":"2019-02-26T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b9a77c20213b96c2934cfbc2688ee326"},"modified":"2019-02-26T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T14:00:07","slug":"amazon-forest-can-be-trained-by-higher-rainfall-variability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=584354","title":{"rendered":"Amazon forest can be trained by higher rainfall variability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon rainforest has evolved over millions of years and even through ice ages. Yet today, human influences and global climate change put this huge ecosystem at risk of large-scale dieback\u2014with major consequences for its capability as a global CO2 sink. New research published in Nature Geoscience now reveals a key player in shaping the resilience of the Amazon, and finds that regions with generally higher rainfall variability are more resilient to current and future climate disturbances. However, despite this &#8220;training effect,&#8221; the Amazon rainforest might not be able to keep up with the pace of ongoing climate change, the study shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon rainforest has evolved over millions of years and even through ice ages. Yet today, human influences and global climate change put this huge ecosystem at risk of large-scale dieback&mdash;with major consequences for its capability as a global CO2 sink. New research published in Nature Geoscience now reveals a key player in shaping the resilience of the Amazon, and finds that regions with generally higher rainfall variability are more resilient to current and future climate disturbances. However, despite this &#8220;training effect,&#8221; the Amazon rainforest might not be able to keep up with the pace of ongoing climate change, the study shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584355,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584354\/revisions\/584355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}