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...
Systemic Conservation, REDD, and the Future of the Amazon Basin
The environmental movement has won hundreds of critical battles, but it is losing the war. The capacity of the planet to sustain life is declining (Brown 2011). In this essay, we introduce the concept of systemic conservation as a response to this global...
Forest Code: a brief overview of the critical issues and next steps
The changes approved by the Brazilian Senate Plenary are projected to be approved or vetoed by President Dilma Rousseff before the end of 2011. Here you can find the major changes in the most important Brazilian environmental law.
Temporal variability of forest fires in eastern Amazonia
Widespread occurrence of fires in Amazonian forests is known to be associated with extreme droughts, but historical data on the location and extent of forest fires are fundamental to determining the degree to which climate conditions and droughts have affected fire...
Fire‐induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior
Large‐scale wildfires are expected to accelerate forest dieback in Amazônia, but the fire vulnerability of tree species remains uncertain, in part due to the lack of studies relating fire‐induced mortality to both fire behavior and plant traits. To address this...
Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior
Large-scale wildfires are expected to accelerate forest dieback in Amazônia, but the fire vulnerability of tree species remains uncertain, in part due to the lack of studies relating fire-induced mortality to both fire behavior and plant traits. To address this...
Survey on REDD Communications Barriers and Needs
The Forum on Readiness for REDD interviewed 70 engaged stakeholders in the REDD+ Readiness process, asking questions about how they receive information, what kind of information they are looking for, and what challenges they face in getting the information they need. The results of these surveys have been compiled and analyzed in the attached in this White Paper.