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  • Climate Science
  • Forestry

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  • Deforestation significantly impacts water availability through direct runoff changes and indirect forest-climate feedbacks.
  • Separating and understanding these direct and indirect hydrological effects of deforestation remains challenging.

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  • To develop an attribution framework to disentangle the direct and indirect hydrological impacts of deforestation.
  • To quantify the spatial variation and dominance of these effects on global water resources.

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  • Combined Budyko theory with climate model deforestation experiments.
  • Developed an attribution framework to separate direct and indirect hydrological effects.

Main Results:

  • Indirect effects of forest-climate feedbacks significantly reduce runoff, often offsetting direct increases from deforestation.
  • Indirect effects dominate hydrological responses in over 63% of deforested areas globally.
  • Deforestation-induced changes in precipitation and evapotranspiration drive complex runoff patterns.

Conclusions:

  • Forest-climate feedbacks are crucial for understanding and predicting hydrological changes due to deforestation.
  • Accurate assessment of forest-climate feedbacks is vital for sustainable forest and water resource management.