We review the consequences of environmental changes caused by human activities on
forest products and forest-dependent communities in the Amazon region—the vast …

Forest conversion for agriculture is the most expansive signature of human occupation on
the Earth's surface. This paper develops a conceptual model of factors underlying frontier …

Land use and land cover (LULC) change in tropical regions can cause huge amounts of
carbon loss and storage, thus significantly affecting the global climate. Due to the differences …

Tropical deforestation frontiers continue to expand at alarming rates, but their fine-scale
temporal patterns (eg, start timing, patch forming speed, temporal clustering within a year) …

Abstract The Amazon Forest, possessing the highest carbon stock (CS) per hectare in Brazil,
is confronting deforestation and increased greenhouse gas emissions as a result of changes …

Environmental changes are among the main factors that contribute to the emergence or re-
emergence of viruses of public health importance. Here, we show the impact of …

This research evaluates the relationship between the official and unofficial road network and
deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon within and around 332 indigenous lands from 2008 to …

The red brocket deer Mazama americana Erxleben, 1777 is considered a polyphyletic
complex of cryptic species with wide chromosomal divergence. Evidence indicates that the …

In this study, we show the complexity associated with the recent land cover changes by
elucidating the paths of 30 years of changes in the Upper Paraná River Basin (UPRB), a …

The indigenous lands (ILs) from the Brazilian Amazon are in constant threat, especially
regarding deforestation. This research aims to assess whether deforestation occurring …