Regional Climate Variability Responses to Future Land Surface Forcing in the Brazilian Amazon

Table 1

The forest area and biomass stock in Brazil from 1990 to 2005. This table shows a dramatic reduction in both forest quantity and quality. The data is obtained from the website of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, global forest resources assessment, 2005 available online at: http://www.fao.org/forestry/country/32185/en/bra/ and http://www.fao.org/forestry/country/32183/en/bra/.

Categories	1990	2000	2005
Forest area (10^6 hectares)
Primary	460.51	433.22	415.89
Modified natural	54.44	54.71	56.42
Productive plantation	5.07	5.28	5.38
Total	520.03	493.21	477.70
Biomass stock (10^3 million metric tonnes oven-dry weight)
Above ground biomass	86.09	82.68	79.22
Below ground biomass	24.43	22.86	22.02
Dead wood	6.88	6.56	6.36
Total	117.40	112.10	107.60