This lecture explores key drivers that have led to the degradation of 17% of the Amazon Basin, and how this significantly impacts the environment through various effects including changes in biological communities and higher tree mortality. While the lecture focuses on significant examples of drivers of degradation like climate change, forest fires, edge effects, and logging, the required readings and supplementary materials delve further into how hunting also drives degradation across the region, as well as other impacts of degradation including as local extinctions, lower humidity, and higher wind disturbance.

Lecture source language: English

Available subtitles & translations: Portuguese and Spanish