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...
Modelo de Ata de Reunião para mapeamento – Tô no Mapa
Este modelo de Ata de Reunião faz parte do material de apoio do projeto Tô no Mapa - uma inciativa de suas ONGs brasileiras, IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia) e ISPN (Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza), com o apoio da Rede Cerrado, que tem...
Long-term post-fire resprouting dynamics and reproduction of woody species in a Brazilian savanna
Resprouting is an efficient life history strategy by which woody savanna species can recover their aboveground biomass after fire. However, resprouting dynamics after fire and the time it takes to start producing flowers and fruits are still poorly understood,...
O ar é insuportável – Os impactos das queimadas associadas ao desmatamento da Amazônia brasileira na saúde
Estendendo-se por quase metade do território brasileiro e abrangendo nove de seus estados, a região amazônica é o lar de mais de 20 milhões de brasileiros. Desde 1985 – quando o governo começou a monitorar o desmatamento na Amazônia –, mais de meio milhão de...
Woody aboveground biomass mapping of the Brazilian savanna with a multi-sensor and machine learning approach
The tropical savanna in Brazil known as the Cerrado covers circa 23% of the Brazilian territory, but only 3% of this area is protected. High rates of deforestation and degradation in the woodland and forest areas have made the Cerrado the second-largest source of...
Reconstructing three decades of land use and land cover changes in Brazilian biomes with Landsat archive and Earth Engine
Brazil has a monitoring system to track annual forest conversion in the Amazon and most recently to monitor the Cerrado biome. However, there is still a gap of annual land use and land cover (LULC) information in all Brazilian biomes in the country. Existing...