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...
Epidemiologically inspired approaches to land-use policy evaluation
In order to test and develop methods, the study evaluates the effect of a land-use policy known as the rural environmental registry (CAR) on the reduction of deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
Map of undesignated forestlands in the Legal Amazon
Public forests of the Brazilian Legal Amazon and its 70 million hectares of undesignated forestlands (IPAM, with data from SFB, 2016).
Terras não-designadas na Amazônia Legal
O mapa mostra onde estão as florestas públicas não-designadas, ou seja, sem destinação na Amazônia Legal, com base em dados coletados no Serviço Florestal Brasileiro (SFB, 2016).
Geographic range-scale assessment of species conservation status: A framework linking species and landscape features
The concept of habitat and spatial extent are key features in landscape ecology. A non-precise definition of habitat and the wrong choice of the scale can affect model outcomes and our understanding about population conservation status. We proposed a framework and...
Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests
Tree mortality rates appear to be increasing in moist tropical forests (MTFs) with significant carbon cycle consequences. Here, we review the state of knowledge regarding MTF tree mortality, create a conceptual framework with testable hypotheses regarding the...
Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality inmoist tropical forests
Tree mortality rates appear to be increasing in moist tropical forests (MTFs) with significant carbon cycle consequences.