Secas amplificam perdas de umidade do solo em florestas queimadas do Sudeste da Amazônia
Secas, queimadas e desmatamento fazem com que florestas estoquem mais água do solo como forma de sobreviver, tornando esses ambientes mais secos, suscetíveis ao fogo e diminuindo as chuvas nas regiões próximas. Dados foram divulgados no artigo “Secas amplificam...
Watershed responses to Amazon soya bean cropland expansion and intensification
The expansion and intensification of soya bean agriculture in southeastern Amazonia can alter watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry by changing the land cover, water balance and nutrient inputs. Several new insights on the responses of watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry to deforestation in Mato Grosso have emerged from recent intensive field campaigns in this region.
Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales
Tropical rainforest regions have large hydropower generation potential that figures prominently in many nations’ energy growth strategies. Feasibility studies of hydropower plants typically ignore the effect of future deforestation or assume that deforestation will...
Subsidies for a Cattle Ranching Intensification Subprogram in Acre: A State Analysis
The main objective of this technical report is to provide background information for Acre’s Incentive Program for Environmental Services (SISA) concerning the cattle ranching intensification subprogram.
Amazônia em Pauta 1: Novo Código Florestal e os Assentamentos na Amazônia
Neste boletim, o IPAM fornece novos números do passivo de reserva legal nos assentamentos da região e levanta pontos importantes que devem ser levados em consideração para que esta nova realidade pós-aprovação do Código Florestal não implique em aumento na taxa de desmatamento nos assentamentos da Amazônia.
Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses
Changes in climate and land use that interact synergistically to increase fire frequencies and intensities in tropical regions are predicted to drive forests to new grass-dominated stable states. To reveal the mechanisms for such a transition, we established 50 ha...
Responding to climate change and the global land crisis: REDD+, market transformation and low-emissions rural development
Climate change and rapidly escalating global demand for food, fuel, fibre and feed present seemingly contradictory challenges to humanity. Can greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from land-use, more than one-fourth of the global total, decline as growth in land-based...