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Amazon Forests Are Turning into Savannas
Eos, 2021 Floodplain forests have low resilience to repeated exposure to wildfires. As climate change increases the instances of fires, forests may transform to less productive grassland ecosystems.
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Remote SensingThe tropical forests in the Amazon store large amounts of carbon and are still considered a carbon sink. There is evidence that deforestation can turn a forest landscape into a carbon source due to land use and forest degradation.
Luise Bauer +4 more
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Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and Amazon carbon balance [PDF]
, 2014 Forest inventory studies in the Amazon indicate a large terrestrial carbon sink. However, field plots may fail to represent forest mortality processes at landscape-scales of tropical forests. Here we characterize the frequency distribution of disturbance
Asner, Gregory P +20 more
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Vulnerability of Amazon forests to storm-driven tree mortality
Environmental Research Letters, 2018 Tree mortality is a key driver of forest community composition and carbon dynamics. Strong winds associated with severe convective storms are dominant natural drivers of tree mortality in the Amazon.
Robinson I Negrón-Juárez +14 more
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021 Brazil has 310.5 million hectares of public forests, almost 92% of which in the Amazon. Since the 1980s, Brazilian environmental legislation has been improving and, along with other measures, has contributed to a significant reduction in deforestation in
Iranilda Moraes +3 more
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Agro forestry systems and food security among smallholder farmers of the Brazilian Amazon: A strategy for environmental global crisis [PDF]
, 2008 The Amazon is known for its environmental importance for the climatic equilibrium, for its abundance and richness in biodiversity and its preservation is important to reduce global heating. Nevertheless, little research has analysed the possible positive
Abreu, Dr. Santiago de Lucimar +1 more
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Condition and fate of logged forests in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 The long-term viability of a forest industry in the Amazon region of Brazil depends on the maintenance of adequate timber volume and growth in healthy forests. Using extensive high-resolution satellite analyses, we studied the forest damage caused by recent logging operations and the likelihood that logged forests would be cleared within 4
Gregory P, Asner +5 more
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Is community forest-based enterprises sustainable in Amazon? [PDF]
, 2009 Since the end of the 1990s, the Brazilian PROMANEJO program (Projeto de Apoio ao Manejo Florestal Sustentável na Amazônia) financed several community forest-based enterprises (CFEs). CFEs are seen as an opportunity for extractivist and farmers interested
Abramovay, Ricardo +3 more
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Parallel functional and stoichiometric trait shifts in South American and African forest communities with elevation [PDF]
, 2017 The Amazon and Congo basins are the two largest continuous blocks of tropical forest with a central role for global biogeochemical cycles and ecology. However, both biomes differ in structure and species richness and composition.
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The main challenges of sustainable forest management in the Amazon: why sustainable forest management in the Amazon should be reinforced? [PDF]
, 2019 Since the last 50 years, tropical natural forests have been intensively logged in the tropics to supply the increasing demand of tropical timber. Unplanned logging operations caused forest degradation leading to their conversion due to the loss of their ...
De Oliveira, Marcus Vinicius +10 more
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