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Hydrological Modeling and Climate Change
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DEFORESTATION IN MEXICO: REACHING THE FUTURE WITH SHAME
Pedro Andrés Sánchez Gutiérrez
Forests are more than just trees; they are a source of food, water, and livelihood and are essential to the global ecosystem. When managed sustainably, forests can increase resilience and provide economic services, a variety of environmental services, and employment opportunities. In addition, forests absorb and store carbon dioxide and provide habitats for a large number of species (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016).
Forests play a comprehensive role in water cycle management. In a healthy ecosystem, rain is absorbed by the soil and surrounding trees. Some of the absorbed water returns to the atmosphere through transpiration, the release of water from plant leaves during photosynthesis. Transpired water contributes to the formation of rain clouds that distribute the water back to the forest. When trees are removed from an ecosystem, less water is released into the atmosphere, and less rain falls in the surrounding areas (Mongabay, 2020).
