Do chão ao céu, monitoramento territorial indígena e a primeira década da ferramenta SOMAI-ACI
A primeira edição do Boletim PROTEJA publicou dados do SOMAI-ACI sobre crimes ambientais em terras indígenas na Amazônia. Entre janeiro de 2021 e novembro de 2023, 761 atividades ilegais foram registradas em 46 terras indígenas, totalizando 33 milhões de hectares...
Uptake of water by lateral roots of small trees in an Amazonian Tropical Forest
A pulse chase technique was used to determine depth and breath of plant water uptake in an Amazonian evergreen forest. Two 2×2 m2 plots were irrigated with deuterated water. The deuterium pulse, measured as δD values of soil and plant sap water, was followed in the...
Frontier Governance in Amazonia
Throughout human history, the world's great forest formations have yielded to logging, cattle ranching, and agricultural expansion after transportation corridors made them accessible to frontier settlers. The Brazilian Amazon could prove to be an exception to this...
Arguing Tropical Forest Conservation: People versus Parks
We all agree that nature reserves with minimal human influence are an important component of any conservation strategy in any country. Rather, the point of controversy is how best to achieve a much broader, more comprehensive conservation of nature in a region such...
Rethinking Tropical Forest Conservation: Perils in Parks
According to some conservationists, large, pristine, uninhabited parks are the defining criterion of success in conserving tropical forests. They argue that human residents in tropical forests inevitably deplete populations of large animals through hunting, which...
The commercial fisheries of the lower Amazon: an economic analysis
This study characterizes the fishermen and the commercial fishing fleet of the lower Amazon, based on data collected from 5446 boats operating out of the city of Santarém in 1997. An economic analysis of the activities of these boats was based on 50 interviews with...
Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests
Fire poses the greatest threat to the forests of Amazônia. The magnitude of this threat is amplified by three positive feedback loops that drive the expansion of forest fire in the region: (1) Fire promotes drought, and therefore more fire, by releasing smoke into...