This article presents a 21st Century agenda for Amazonian conservation. The agenda calls for developing a system of refugia and a scientific methodology for predicting impacts of the infrastructure development vision for the region. It also calls for a collaborative approach to conservation planning, in the interest of fruitful engagement with decision-makers and stakeholders. The ideas explored here emerged from the collaboration of peers over a decade, which culminated in a panel presentation, Scientific Analysis, and Simulation Models to Support Conservation and Development Decision-Making, at the Tools and Strategies Workshop held at the University of Florida in October, 2017.
Impacts of fire on canopy structure and its resilience depend on successional stage in Amazonian secondary forests
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...