This policy brief presents the level of emissions from understory forest wildfires in the Amazon as a way to highlight the urgent need to protect the carbon sink and storage potential, a critical function of the Amazonian rainforests, which has been diminished.
Conversion to soy on the Amazonian agricultural frontier increases streamflow without affecting stormflow dynamics
Conversion to soy on the Amazonian agricultural frontier increases streamflow without affecting stormflow dynamics
Large-scale soy agriculture in the southern Brazilian Amazon now rivals deforestation for pasture as the region's predominant form of land use change. Such landscape-level change can have substantial consequences for local and regional hydrology, but these effects...