Land use/cover change (LUCC), as an important factor in global change, is a topic that has
recently received considerable attention in the prospective modeling domain. There are …

Forests, through the regulation of regional water balances, provide a number of ecosystem
services, including water for agriculture, hydroelectric power generation, navigation …

Mapping anthropogenic forest disturbances has largely been focused on distinct
delineations of events of deforestation using optical satellite images. In the tropics, frequent …

Brazil recently began granting timber concessions in public forests to promote sustainable
forest use. The effectiveness of this strategy hinges on the design and implementation of the …

Abstract The Amazonian ecosystems of Madre de Dios (MDD) region, considered Peru's
“capital of biodiversity” due to its impressive species richness, are threatened by the rapid …

Although many examples of multiple-use forest management may be found in tropical
smallholder systems, few studies provide empirical support for the integration of selective …

A growing literature focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of forest conservation policies,
but few studies explore where and under which conditions programs produce net positive …

Although land use/cover maps are widely used to support management and environmental
policies, only some studies have reported their accuracy using sound and complete …

The Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have directed increased
political attention to forests and their sustainable management globally. Forest concessions …

Tree species in tropical forests provide economically important goods and ecosystem
services. In submontane forests of southwestern Amazonia, we investigated the degree to …