Climate risks to Amazon agriculture suggest a rationale to conserve local ecosystems

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Precipitation Drivers of Cropping Frequency in the Brazilian Cerrado: Evidence and Implications for Decision-Making

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Increased climate risk in Brazilian double cropping agriculture systems: Implications for land use in Northern Brazil

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Patterns of land use, extensification, and intensification of Brazilian agriculture

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Cropping frequency and area response to climate variability can exceed yield response

(2016) Avery S. Cohn et al.   Nature Climate Change

Rainfall patterns in the Southern Amazon: a chronological perspective (1971–2010)

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Brazil's Soy Moratorium

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Did Ranchers and Slaughterhouses Respond to Zero-Deforestation Agreements in the Brazilian Amazon?

(2015) Holly K. Gibbs et al.   Conservation Letters

Effects of tropical deforestation on climate and agriculture

(2015) Deborah Lawrence et al.   Nature Climate Change

Soybean Development: The Impact of a Decade of Agricultural Change on Urban and Economic Growth in Mato Grosso, Brazil

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Recent cropping frequency, expansion, and abandonment in Mato Grosso, Brazil had selective land characteristics

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Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

(2014) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

Large-scale expansion of agriculture in Amazonia may be a no-win scenario

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Spatial patterns of rainfall regimes related to levels of double cropping agriculture systems in Mato Grosso (Brazil)

(2013) Damien Arvor et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Effect of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes on Climate and Land Carbon Storage in CMIP5 Projections for the Twenty-First Century

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Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection

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RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions

(2011) Keywan Riahi et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Evidence that deforestation affects the onset of the rainy season in Rondonia, Brazil

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Effects of Amazon and Central Brazil deforestation scenarios on the duration of the dry season in the arc of deforestation

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