After almost five years, the Forest Code brought about important progress to land use regulation in rural estate properties. But there is an infinity of challenges ahead for Brazil to actually advance in the implementation of the Code.
Impacts of fire on canopy structure and its resilience depend on successional stage in Amazonian secondary forests
Secondary forests in the Amazon are important carbon sinks, biodiversity reser-voirs, and connections between forest fragments. However, their regrowth ishighly threatened by fire. Using airborne laser scanning (ALS), surveyedbetween 2016 and 2018, we analyzed...