Fogo no Brasil em 2024: o retrato fundiário da área queimada nos biomas
Ane Alencar¹, Vera Arruda¹, Felipe Martenexen¹, Eduardo Reis Rosa2, Eduardo Vélez-Martin3, Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto4, Soltan Galano Duverger 5, Newton Monteiro¹, Wallace Silva¹ ¹IPAM 2 ArcPlan 3GeoKarten 4Sos Mata Atlântica 5Geodatin Introdução O ano de 2024...
Effect of leaf-cutting ant nests on plant growth in an oligotrophic Amazon rain forest
This study examined whether high nutrient concentrations associated with leaf-cutting ant nests influence plant growth and plant water relations in Amazon rain forests. Three nests of Atta cephalotes were selected along with 31 Amaioua guianensis and Protium sp....
Amazon deforestation and Brazil’s forest code: a crossroads for climate change
Considerably more is at stake in the ongoing battle in Brazil's Congress and government over the country's core forest protection legislation, the Forest Code, than President Dilma Rousseff's political fortunes or Brazil's international reputation. Full...
Deforestation around the world
The study-cases reported here may call attention for the velocity we are losing our forests in a planetary scale and for inestimable impact that will have in human life quality, in wild life, in water, soil and air and in the world economy. To keep it short, it won’t be a surprise if the cost to fix the losses would overcome the investments we have done to achieve the present unsustainable development.
Cation Leaching from Forest and Pasture Soils, Para, Brazil
This data set provides a time series of calcium, magnesium, and potassium extracted from soil samples from a laboratory column extraction study conducted in 2002. Soils used in the columns were originally collected in 1998 in Fazenda Vitoria, a cattle ranch 6 km...
REDD in Brazil: A focus on the Amazon
The publication presents two models of institutional frameworks for the development of a national policy for compensating reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in Brazil.
Rumo ao REDD+ Jurisdicional: pesquisa, análises e recomendações ao Programa de Incentivos aos Serviços Ambientais do Acre (ISA Carbono)
Relatório apresenta a pesquisa, análises e recomendações para o programa Incentivos para Serviços Ambientais - Carbono (ISA-C) que faz parte do Sistema de Incentivos aos Serviços Ambientais do Acre (SISA).