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...
Conversion to soy on the Amazonian agricultural frontier increases streamflow without affecting stormflow dynamics
Large-scale soy agriculture in the southern Brazilian Amazon now rivals deforestation for pasture as the region's predominant form of land use change. Such landscape-level change can have substantial consequences for local and regional hydrology, but these effects...
Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon
Anthropogenic understory fires have affected large areas of tropical forest in recent decades, particularly during severe droughts. Yet, the mechanisms that control fire-induced mortality of tropical trees and lianas remain ambiguous due to the challenges...
Agriculture in Brazil: impacts, costs, and opportunities for a sustainable future
Brazil has developed a large-scale commercial agricultural system, recognized worldwide for its role in domestic economic growth and expanding exports. However, the success of this sector has been associated with widespread destruction of Brazilian ecosystems,...
Comment on “The Incidence of Fire in Amazonian Forests with Implications for REDD”
Aragão and Shimabukuro (Reports, 4 June 2010, p. 1275) reported that fires increase in agricultural frontiers even as deforestation decreases and concluded that these fires lead to unaccounted carbon emissions under the United Nations climate treaty's tropical...
Caixa de ferramentas de gênero
O documento proporciona uma ideia geral do material disponível sobre gênero e cadeias de valor em vários países, objetivando motivar e colaborar com os profissionais para integrar uma perspectiva de gênero no desenvolvimento de cadeias de valor.
Clima e Desmatamento no Xingu
Boletim produzido pelo consórcio composto pelo IPAM, ICV, ISA, Fórum Mato-Grossense de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento de MT (Formad) e Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Rurais de Lucas do Rio Verde (STR Lucas), no âmbito do projeto Governança Florestal nas Cabeceiras do Rio Xingu, e faz parte das ações da Campanha "Y Ikatu Xingu".