Climate benefits of Amazon secondary forests—recent advances and research needs
A quarter of the deforested Amazon has regrown as secondary tropical forest and yet the climatic importance of these complex regenerating landscapes is only beginning to be recognised. Advances in satellite remote-sensing have transformed our ability to detect and...
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).
Efeito do substrato e de diferentes tratamentos pré-germinativos na germinação de sementes de Tento – Ormosia paraensis Ducke (Fabaceae)
Este estudo objetivou avaliar a eficácia de tratamentos pré-germinativos em diferentes substratos para superar a dormência de sementes de Ormosia paraensis Ducke. Foram avaliados quatro tratamentos prégerminativos: 1) escarificação mecânica, 2) escarificação...
Forest fragmentation, climate change and understory fire regimes on the Amazonian landscapes of the Xingu headwaters
Understory fire modeling is a key tool to investigate the cornerstone concept of landscape ecology, i.e. how ecological processes relate to landscape structure and dynamics. Within this context, we developed FISC—a model that simulates fire ignition and spread and...