The role of forest conversion, degradation, and disturbance in the carbon dynamics of Amazon indigenous territories and protected areas

The Role and Need for Space-Based Forest Biomass-Related Measurements in Environmental Management and Policy

(2019) Martin Herold et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Working together for Amazonia

(2019) Paulo Artaxo   SCIENCE

Bolsonaro's first moves have Brazilian scientists worried

(2019) Herton Escobar   SCIENCE

Droughts, Wildfires, and Forest Carbon Cycling: A Pantropical Synthesis

(2019) Paulo M. Brando et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Deforestation in the Amazon is shooting up, but Brazil’s president calls the data ‘a lie’

(2019) Herton Escobar   SCIENCE

Amazon fires clearly linked to deforestation, scientists say

(2019) Herton Escobar   SCIENCE

Titled Amazon Indigenous Communities Cut Forest Carbon Emissions

(2018) Allen Blackman et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

The “Chico Mendes” extractive reserve and land governance in the Amazon: Some lessons from the two last decades

(2018) Raimundo Cláudio Gomes Maciel et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Changing patterns in deforestation avoidance by different protection types in the Brazilian Amazon

(2018) Tomas Jusys   PLoS One

21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions

(2018) Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al.   Nature Communications

The threat of political bargaining to climate mitigation in Brazil

(2018) Pedro R. R. Rochedo et al.   Nature Climate Change

FARC and the forest: Peace is destroying Colombia’s jungle — and opening it to science

(2018) Sara Reardon   NATURE

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2018) Yan Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Pervasive Rise of Small-scale Deforestation in Amazonia

(2018) Michelle Kalamandeen et al.   Scientific Reports

Resource extraction and infrastructure threaten forest cover and community rights

(2018) Anthony J. Bebbington et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deforestation and Forest Degradation Due to Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: A 34-Year Perspective

(2018) Jorge Caballero Espejo et al.   Remote Sensing

Current and future patterns of fire-induced forest degradation in Amazonia

(2017) Bruno L De Faria et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Negative emissions from stopping deforestation and forest degradation, globally

(2017) Richard A. Houghton et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Titling indigenous communities protects forests in the Peruvian Amazon

(2017) Allen Blackman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural climate solutions

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

(2017) A. Baccini et al.   SCIENCE

SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

(2017) Tomislav Hengl et al.   PLoS One

Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in 5 years?

(2016) Daniel J. Zarin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Large expansion of oil industry in the Ecuadorian Amazon: biodiversity vulnerability and conservation alternatives

(2016) Janeth Lessmann et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Landscape fragmentation, severe drought, and the new Amazon forest fire regime

(2015) Ane A. Alencar et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Future of oil and gas development in the western Amazon

(2015) Matt Finer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2014) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

The natural and social history of the indigenous lands and protected areas corridor of the Xingu River basin

(2013) S. Schwartzman et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Governance regime and location influence avoided deforestation success of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon

(2013) C. Nolte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps

(2012) A. Baccini et al.   Nature Climate Change

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Effectiveness of Strict vs. Multiple Use Protected Areas in Reducing Tropical Forest Fires: A Global Analysis Using Matching Methods

(2011) Andrew Nelson et al.   PLoS One

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

(2011) S. S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The 2010 Amazon Drought

(2011) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation

(2010) B. Soares-Filho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon

(2010) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change

(2010) Taylor H. Ricketts et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests

(2009) William F. Laurance et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples

(2008) Matt Finer et al.   PLoS One