This policy brief presents the level of emissions from understory forest wildfires in the Amazon as a way to highlight the urgent need to protect the carbon sink and storage potential, a critical function of the Amazonian rainforests, which has been diminished.
The seasonal carbon and water balances of the Cerrado environment of Brazil: Past, present, and future influences of land cover and land use
The seasonal carbon and water balances of the Cerrado environment of Brazil: Past, present, and future influences of land cover and land use
The Brazilian savanna (known as Cerrado) is an upland biome made up of various vegetation types from herbaceous to arboreal. In this paper, MODIS remote sensing vegetation greenness from the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and evapotranspiration (ET) data for the...