The Amazon region has historically had a chaotic land tenure situation. Illegal occupations and land conflicts have been common in many areas where the delineation of lands and legitimization of property rights are difficult.
Conversion to soy on the Amazonian agricultural frontier increases streamflow without affecting stormflow dynamics
Conversion to soy on the Amazonian agricultural frontier increases streamflow without affecting stormflow dynamics
Large-scale soy agriculture in the southern Brazilian Amazon now rivals deforestation for pasture as the region's predominant form of land use change. Such landscape-level change can have substantial consequences for local and regional hydrology, but these effects...