Deforestation is responsible for a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions and
changes in surface energy budgets that affect climate. Deforestation losses include wildlife …

The municipality of Theobroma in Rondonia, Brazil, covers 2165km2, of which 43% was
deforested by 1993. Between 1973 and 1993, the national government continued to improve …

The conversion of primary forests in the Amazon via selective logging, slash and burn
agriculture, and pasture establishment, will continue because of the increasing demand for …

Conversion to pastures is an important cause of deforestation of rainforests in South
America. Cattle-grazing on previously forested land is unsustainable and leads to …

This chapter focuses on historical perspectives of land use in Tomé-Açu using remote
sensing as a tool to assess land use/land cover and ecosystem goods and services such as …

Low external input agroforestry systems hold great promise as alternative, sustainable
production systems for small-to-medium farmers in the Amazon Basin. The design of such …

Over the past three decades, large expanses of forest in the Amazon Basin were converted
to pasture, many of which later degraded to woody fallows and were abandoned. While the …

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Abstract Large areas of Tropical Forest have been cleared and deeply modified aiming at
growing crops and producing livestock. Many of these areas are transformed in pastures …

Tropical peat swamp forests provide many important ecosystem services, especially their
function as global carbon sinks. These carbon‐rich wetlands are widespread in South …