Inundation of forests through dams

Forests represent more than the market value of timber: dams destroy also such benefits as soil preservation, water replenishment, climatic stabilization, air purification and wildlife shelter. Bacterial decomposition and methane production in flooded forest areas are much faster than in pre-flood sediments, so contributing to global warming.

1. Threatened alluvial forests habitats
2. Environmental degradation due to creation of dams

1. Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide
2. Increase in atmospheric concentration of methane
3. Endangered forests

1. Researching forests
2. Reducing atmospheric methane concentrations
3. Damming rivers

1. Loss
2. Inundation
3. Flooding
4. Artificiality