This report is a joint project of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). It is about Amazon deforestation and the potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from Tropical Forests.
Nepstad, D., Moutinho, P. e Soares-Filho, B. 2006. The Amazon in a Changing Climate: Large-Scale Reductions of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Impoverishment.
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