Kara Pugh

Dr. Steven Petersheim

HON H100

19 November 2018

Annotated Bibliography

Edwards, Mark. “Logging in the Amazon.” World Wide Fund for Nature. Accessed 25 Nov.

2018,

wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/amazon/amazon_threats/other_threats/l

ogging_amazon/.

This article talks about the effects of logging in the Amazon Rainforest. It also talks

about how there is also illegal logging that occurs, it is not hard to do. The impacts of illegal

logging can affect the forest and alter assessments of damage. This article will help add to my

argument on how logging is affecting the Amazon.

Feeley, K. J., and M. R. Silman. “Extinction Risks of Amazonian Plant Species.” Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 106, no. 30, 2009, pp. 12382–12387.,

doi:10.1073/pnas.0900698106.

This article talks about plant extinction in the amazon. This article will help go

along with less places for carbon dioxide to be stored. Losing plants could be a slippery slope,

plants are gone, less places for animals to live and less for them to eat, which leads them to

extinction, which messes up the food chain, ect.

Harder, Ben. “Plowing Down the Amazon: Satellites Reveal Conversion of Forest to

Farmland.” Science News, 06 Sept. 2006, www.sciencenews.org/article/plowing-down-

amazon-satellites-reveal-conversion-forest-farmland.
 The article talks about clearing the jungle for croplands to grow crops. The demand for

soybeans and other crops has been helping the Brazilian economy grow. The article states that

two fifths of the forest will be gone by 2050. This article will help me explain what part of the

reason deforestation is occurring.

Hilker, Thomas, et al. “Vegetation Dynamics and Rainfall Sensitivity of the

Amazon.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 111, no. 45, 2014, pp.

16041–16046., doi:10.1073/pnas.1404870111.

This article will also help me show the connection between rainfall and the vegetation in

the Amazon. Decrese in precipitation is due to logging and if this keeps going on thr rainforest

is going to keep drying out. Since there are less plants there is more CO2 left in the air because

there is little space to store it.

Mei, Rui, and Wang, Guiling. “Rain Follows Logging in the Amazon? Results from CAM3–

CLM3.” Climate Dynamics, vol. 34, no. 7/8, June 2010, pp. 983–996. EBSCOhost,

doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0592-x.

This article talks about how different types of logging affect the amount of rain in

the certain area. This would help me talk about how logging is affecting the climate and how it

is changing. It provides graph and field research to help support my argument. It will also help

show that the plants will start dying since there is less and less participation.

Powell, Devin. “Story One: Amazon Could Become Part of Climate Problem: Drying Trend May

Release Stored Carbon to Atmosphere.” Science News, vol. 181, no. 3, 2012, pp. 5–6.,

doi:10.1002/scin.5591810303.
 This article talk about how the Amazon is starting to release carbon dioxide instead of

holding it in. Since there are less trees, there are less to do photosynthesis and less places to hold

carbon dioxide. Since there is less trees to soak up the rain water, a drought can occur.

Schwartzman, Steve. “Tragedy and Transformation: Deforestation in the

Amazon.” Environmental Defense Fund, 20 Mar. 2013,

www.edf.org/blog/2013/03/20/tragedy-and-transformation-deforestation-amazon.

This article will help me give some background information on logging

and its effects. It gives me some facts and statistics I can use to show how much logging is

actually going on and it gives me statistics on the Amazon itself.

Welch, Craig. “How Amazon Forest Loss May Affect Water-and Climate-Far Away.” National

Geographic, National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2018,

www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/how-cutting-the-amazon-forest-

could-affect-weather/.

This article talks about how the new president has plans to destroy the rainforest to add

more to the soy bean and agricultural economy. By doing this the Amazon will disappear at a

faster rate. It could affect water supply many miles away, such as California. The rainforest

creates rain so therefore it would mess up the water cycle and everything would be off balance.

It would also mess with the species living there, which 10% of the world’s species live here.

This article helps me pull together my argument.