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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We present a generic spatially explicit modeling framework to estimate carbon emissions from deforestation (INPE‐EM). The framework incorporates the temporal dynamics related to …
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 …
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 …