Storm intensity and old‐growth forest disturbances in the Amazon region [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2010 We analyzed the pattern of large forest disturbances or blow-downs apparently caused by severe storms in a mostly unmanaged portion of the Brazilian Amazon using 27 Landsat images and daily precipitation estimates from NOAA satellite data.
Michael Keller +2 more
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Historical deforestation drives strong rainfall decline across the southern Amazon basin [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe Amazon forest has recently experienced substantial human-induced loss of forest cover. However, the extent to which such historical deforestation has altered regional observed precipitation through inter-regional atmospheric moisture transport ...
Jiangpeng Cui +4 more
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Temporal Analysis of Forest Fragmentation in the Amazon Rainforest of Tocantins State, Brazil [PDF]
Floresta e Ambiente, 2023 The Amazon Rainforest presents intense pressure from agricultural and cattle farming activities on its forest remnants, which promotes forest fragmentation.
Thaiana Brunes Feitosa +3 more
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Governance lessons from the Atlantic Forest to the conservation of the Amazon
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Brazilian forests critical are for climate, water, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. The Atlantic Forest and the Amazon are among the most important tropical forests of the world but have different conservation status.
Luís Fernando Guedes Pinto +3 more
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Sensitivity of Optical Satellites to Estimate Windthrow Tree-Mortality in a Central Amazon Forest
Remote Sensing, 2023 Windthrow (i.e., trees broken and uprooted by wind) is a major natural disturbance in Amazon forests. Images from medium-resolution optical satellites combined with extensive field data have allowed researchers to assess patterns of windthrow tree ...
Luciano Emmert +6 more
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021 Leaf respiration in the dark (Rdark) and light (Rday) is poorly characterized in diverse tropical ecosystems, and little to no information exists on the degree of light suppression in common tree species within the Amazon basin, and their dependences ...
Daisy C. Souza +10 more
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Forest Fragmentation and Fires in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon–Maranhão State, Brazil
Fire, 2022 Tropical forests provide essential environmental services to human well-being. In the world, Brazil has the largest continuous area of these forests. However, in the state of Maranhão, in the eastern Amazon, only 24% of the original forest cover remains.
Celso H. L. Silva-Junior +18 more
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Diversity and enzymatic capabilities of fungi associated with the digestive tract of larval stages of a shredder insect in Cerrado and Amazon Forest, Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2022 Tropical biomes such as Brazilian Cerrado and Amazon Forest have a great diversity of fungi and insects. Interactions between these organisms can be beneficial to both partners. In streams, these interactions contribute to litter decomposition.
M. F. N. P. Teixeira +2 more
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Wild dogs at stake: deforestation threatens the only Amazon endemic canid, the short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) [PDF]
, 2020 The persistent high deforestation rate and fragmentation of the Amazon forests are the main threats to their biodiversity. To anticipate and mitigate these threats, it is important to understand and predict how species respond to the rapidly changing ...
Abrahams, Mark +48 more
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Trees, Forests and People, 2020 Allometries that include height as independent variable usually provide greater accuracy on estimates of volume, biomass or individual carbon than other prediction strategies that rely only diameter at breast height as independent variable. However, when
Rodrigo Geroni Mendes Nascimento +6 more
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