Amazonia hosts the Earth's largest tropical forests and has been shown to be an important
carbon sink over recent decades 1, 2, 3. This carbon sink seems to be in decline, however …

Reforestation and forest restoration are recognized as an effective means of halting
biodiversity loss and increasing the performance of ecosystem services such as carbon …

The globally important carbon sink of intact, old-growth tropical humid forests is declining
because of climate change, deforestation and degradation from fire and logging …

Tropical secondary forests sequester carbon up to 20 times faster than old-growth forests.
This rate does not capture spatial regrowth patterns due to environmental and disturbance …

Abstract The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal
Amazon (PPCDAm), launched in 2004, promoted a drastic conservation reform in Brazil. To …

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

Under suitable conditions, deforested land used for agricultural crops or pastures can revert
to forest through the assisted or unassisted process of natural regeneration. These naturally …

The physical phenomena derived from an analysis of remotely sensed imagery provide a
clearer understanding of the spectral variations of a large number of land use and cover …

Brazil has become a global leader in the production of commodity row crops such as
soybean, sugarcane, cotton, and corn. Here, we report an increase in Brazilian cropland …

In tropical regions, such as in the Amazon, the use of optical sensors is limited by high cloud
coverage throughout the year. As an alternative, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) products …