[HTML][HTML] Drought and deforestation: has land cover change influenced recent precipitation extremes in the Amazon?

JE Bagley, AR Desai, KJ Harding, PK Snyder… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Drought and Deforestation: Has Land Cover Change Influenced Recent Precipitation
Extremes in the Amazon? in: Journal of Climate Volume 27 Issue 1 (2014) Jump to Content …

Understorey fire frequency and the fate of burned forests in southern Amazonia

DC Morton, Y Le Page, R DeFries… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recent drought events underscore the vulnerability of Amazon forests to understorey fires.
The long-term impact of fires on biodiversity and forest carbon stocks depends on the …

Tropical forest cover dynamics for Latin America using Earth observation data: a review covering the continental, regional, and local scale

E Da Ponte, M Fleckenstein… - … Journal of Remote …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The tropical forest cover has varied greatly over the last few decades. The rapid advance of
agricultural crops and illegal clearings in natural areas has resulted in the conversion of the …

[HTML][HTML] Evolução do plano de ação para prevenção e controle do desmatamento na Amazônia legal

NGR Mello, P Artaxo - Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
RESUMO O presente estudo analisou a evolução da implementação do Plano de Ação
para Prevenção e Controle do Desmatamento na Amazônia Legal (PPCDAm). Para tal, foi …

[HTML][HTML] Scenarios of land use and land cover change for NW Amazonia: Impact on forest intactness

D Armenteras, U Murcia, TM González… - Global Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in land use and land cover (LULC) are important drivers of environmental
changes in the tropics. Amazônia Legal has showed some declines in deforestation rates …

Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes

P Newton, A Agrawal, L Wollenberg - Global Environmental Change, 2013 - Elsevier
The rapid expansion of the production of agricultural commodities such as beef, cocoa, palm
oil, rubber and soybean is associated with high rates of deforestation in tropical forest …

Oil palm land conversion in Pará, Brazil, from 2006–2014: evaluating the 2010 Brazilian sustainable palm oil production program

E Benami, LM Curran, M Cochrane… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Global models of biophysical suitability for oil palm consistently rank Brazil as having the
greatest potential for expansion, with estimates as high as 238 Mha of suitable lands. In …

Modeling the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of deforestation‐driven carbon emissions: the INPE‐EM framework applied to the Brazilian Amazon

APD Aguiar, JP Ometto, C Nobre… - Global Change …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We present a generic spatially explicit modeling framework to estimate carbon emissions
from deforestation (INPE‐EM). The framework incorporates the temporal dynamics related to …

Historic emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Mato Grosso, Brazil: 1) source data uncertainties

DC Morton, MH Sales, CM Souza… - Carbon Balance and …, 2011 - Springer
Background Historic carbon emissions are an important foundation for proposed efforts to
Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation and enhance forest carbon …

Agricultural land use dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon based on remote sensing and census data

GM De Espindola, APD De Aguiar, E Pebesma… - Applied …, 2012 - Elsevier
The potential impact of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon on greenhouse gas emissions
to the atmosphere calls for policies that take account of changes in forest cover. Although …