The future of tropical forests depends on their ability to resist and recover from multiple disturbances. Here, we evaluated how edge effects, experimental fires, extreme droughts, and blowdowns reshaped forest structure, composition, and functional traits over two...
Co‐management agreements, whereby community rules for the management of local floodplain lake fisheries are legalised and enforced by the government, have become common in the lower Amazon. Agreements are intended to limit exploitation, in particular by commercial...
Brazil could make a substantial contribution to climate change mitigation. Should the UNFCCC include a "reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation" (REDD) mechanism in its post-2012 framework? About 75 per cent of Brazil's CO2 emissions do not result...
As bases teóricas do conservacionismo e do preservacionismo são discutidas neste trabalho de pesquisa, baseadas em um estudo de campo desenvolvido na região de Tefé, no Médio Solimões. Foram estudadas 12 comunidades localizadas em ecossistemas de várzea e terra...
Anthropogenic understory fires affect large areas of tropical forest, particularly during severe droughts. Yet, the mechanisms that control tropical forests' susceptibility to fire remain ambiguous. We tested the widely accepted hypothesis that Amazon forest fires...
The role of tropical deforestation in global climate change is a strong justification for its inclusion in the UN's global climate treaty. In order to successfully address deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, a compensation scheme must...
Industrial production of beef, soybeans, cotton, and biofuels is expanding into the tropical latitudes of South America and may soon reach tropical Africa in the most important agricultural transition since the Green Revolution. This shift is driven by the shortage...