Acid Rain.

How would acid rain affect the Cerrado?

First of all, what is acid rain? Well it is a rain that is unusually acidic, meaning that it possesses elevated levels of hydrogen ions. More specifically, acid rain is caused by emission of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which react with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids. Now how exactly does it effect the Cerrado? Well it hurts. A lot.

Rain is easily the most important aspect to the survival of the Cerrado. Rain is needed six to eight of the twelve months so that everything is able to live on. If there were a sudden change, and the Cerrado began to have acid rain instead of normal raid, the whole ecosystem would plummet. It would happen like this:

1. Plants would die. As shown by the photo above, acid rain can easily eat its way through the plants. Most of these plants depend on rain to grow, but when acid rain is supplemented, they have a hard time.
2. Not all plants would be effected, but it would be enough to crash the food chain.
3. The ecosystem would no longer be a savanna