Caminhos para a recuperação florestal
The future of tropical forests depends on their ability to resist and recover from multiple disturbances. Here, we evaluated how edge effects, experimental fires, extreme droughts, and blowdowns reshaped forest structure, composition, and functional traits over two...
Climate and land use: Forgive us our carbon debts
Sugar cane ethanol replaces fossil fuels, but changes in soil carbon could offset some of the benefit. Now, a study shows minor loss of soil carbon when pastures and croplands are converted to cane, but larger losses when converting native savannahs. Leia o artigo...
Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes
Commodity crop expansion, for both global and domestic urban markets, follows multiple land change pathways entailing direct and indirect deforestation, and results in various social and environmental impacts. Here we compare six published case studies of rapid...
Forest Understory Fuel Loads, Paragominas, Para, Brazil: 2001
This data set contains estimates of understory fuel loads (forest litter) at six locations near Paragominas in Northeastern Amazonia. Samples were collected from three different forest conditions: primary forest, logged forest, and burned forest. Volumes and...
Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains
The recent 70% decline in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon suggests that it is possible to manage the advance of a vast agricultural frontier. Enforcement of laws, interventions in soy and beef supply chains, restrictions on access to credit, and expansion of...
Amazônia em Pauta 3: Rural Environment Registry (CAR) and its influence on the dynamics of deforestation in the Legal Amazon
On May 25th, 2012, after almost two years of discussions in Congress, a new version of the Brazilian Forest Code was approved (Law 12.651/2012). The new law reaffirmed important norms for forest conservation in all the Brazilian biomes. It also established...
Amazônia em Pauta 3: Cadastro Ambiental Rural e sua influência na dinâmica do desmatamento na Amazônia Legal
A terceira edição do boletim Amazônia em Pauta analisa como a dinâmica de desmatamento nos Estados de Mato Grosso e Pará, entre os anos 2008 e 2012, foi afetada pela implementação do Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR).