Secondary forests offset less than 10% of deforestation‐mediated carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon

Unmasking secondary vegetation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon

(2020) Sâmia Nunes et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Satellite‐based estimates reveal widespread forest degradation in the Amazon

(2020) Eric L. Bullock et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A large‐scale assessment of plant dispersal mode and seed traits across human‐modified Amazonian forests

(2020) Joseph E. Hawes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

(2020) Wannes Hubau et al.   NATURE

Restoring tropical forest composition is more difficult, but recovering tree-cover is faster, when neighbouring forests are young

(2020) R. M. Toledo et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The effectiveness of lidar remote sensing for monitoring forest cover attributes and landscape restoration

(2019) D.R.A. Almeida et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data

(2019) Daniela Requena Suarez et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Slow rate of secondary forest carbon accumulation in the Guianas compared with the rest of the Neotropics

(2019) Jérôme Chave et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Alternative functional trajectories along succession after different land uses in central Amazonia

(2019) Jose G. Fernandes Neto et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Assessing the growth and climate sensitivity of secondary forests in highly deforested Amazonian landscapes

(2019) Fernando Elias et al.   ECOLOGY

The Effects of Tropical Vegetation On Rainfall

(2018) D.V. Spracklen et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Second rate or a second chance? Assessing biomass and biodiversity recovery in regenerating Amazonian forests

(2018) Gareth D Lennox et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

(2018) Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Land-use dynamics influence estimates of carbon sequestration potential in tropical second-growth forest

(2017) Naomi B Schwartz et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Natural climate solutions

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

The key role of forests in meeting climate targets requires science for credible mitigation

(2017) Giacomo Grassi et al.   Nature Climate Change

Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests

(2017) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Science Advances

Impacts of climate variability on tree demography in second growth tropical forests: the importance of regional context for predicting successional trajectories

(2016) María Uriarte et al.   BIOTROPICA

Natural forest regeneration and ecological restoration in human-modified tropical landscapes

(2016) Miguel Martínez-Ramos et al.   BIOTROPICA

When does seed limitation matter for scaling up reforestation from patches to landscapes?

(2016) T. Trevor Caughlin et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Policy design for forest carbon sequestration: A review of the literature

(2016) Ing-Marie Gren et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

Do fragment size and edge effects predict carbon stocks in trees and lianas in tropical forests?

(2016) Luiz Fernando Silva Magnago et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

An integrated pan-tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

(2016) Valerio Avitabile et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

High spatial resolution land use and land cover mapping of the Brazilian Legal Amazon in 2008 using Landsat-5/TM and MODIS data

(2016) Cláudio Aparecido de ALMEIDA et al.   ACTA AMAZONICA

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

(2016) R. L. Chazdon et al.   Science Advances

Secondary vegetation in central Amazonia: Land-use history effects on aboveground biomass

(2015) Elisa Vieira Wandelli et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The impact of Amazonian deforestation on Amazon basin rainfall

(2015) D. V. Spracklen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Loss of secondary-forest resilience by land-use intensification in the Amazon

(2015) Catarina C. Jakovac et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

Local and remote climatic impacts due to land use degradation in the Amazon “Arc of Deforestation”

(2015) Maria Elisa Siqueira Silva et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Perturbations in the carbon budget of the tropics

(2014) John Grace et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests

(2014) Erika Berenguer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2013) R. Fu 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

Deforestation and Reforestation of Latin America and the Caribbean (2001-2010)

(2012) T. Mitchell Aide et al.   BIOTROPICA

Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions

(2012) N. L. Harris et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Forest Cover Changes in Tropical South and Central America from 1990 to 2005 and Related Carbon Emissions and Removals

(2012) Hugh D. Eva et al.   Remote Sensing

Hydraulics and life history of tropical dry forest tree species: coordination of species’ drought and shade tolerance

(2011) Lars Markesteijn et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Geographic bias of field observations of soil carbon stocks with tropical land-use changes precludes spatial extrapolation

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

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

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Loss of functional diversity of ant assemblages in secondary tropical forests

(2010) Jochen H. Bihn et al.   ECOLOGY

Boosted carbon emissions from Amazon deforestation

(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

Agricultural intensification increases deforestation fire activity in Amazonia

(2008) D. C. MORTON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An interdisciplinary model of soybean yield in the Amazon Basin: The climatic, edaphic, and economic determinants

(2007) Maria del Carmen Vera-Diaz et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS