Rapid expansion of human impact on natural land in South America since 1985

Satellite‐based estimates reveal widespread forest degradation in the Amazon

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Landsat Analysis Ready Data for Global Land Cover and Land Cover Change Mapping

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The fate of tropical forest fragments

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Mapping and sampling to characterize global inland water dynamics from 1999 to 2018 with full Landsat time-series

(2020) Amy H. Pickens et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Consequences of delaying actions for safeguarding ecosystem services in the Brazilian Cerrado

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Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

(2019) Florian Zabel et al.   Nature Communications

Annual continuous fields of woody vegetation structure in the Lower Mekong region from 2000‐2017 Landsat time-series

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Using supply chain data to monitor zero deforestation commitments: an assessment of progress in the Brazilian soy sector

(2019) Erasmus K H J zu Ermgassen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Amazon Tipping Point

(2018) Thomas E. Lovejoy et al.   Science Advances

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(2018) Xiao-Peng Song et al.   NATURE

Near doubling of Brazil’s intensive row crop area since 2000

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Monitoring tropical forest degradation using spectral unmixing and Landsat time series analysis

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Types and rates of forest disturbance in Brazilian Legal Amazon, 2000–2013

(2017) Alexandra Tyukavina et al.   Science Advances

Reevaluating suitability estimates based on dynamics of cropland expansion in the Brazilian Amazon

(2016) Douglas C. Morton et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano

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Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

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Cropland/pastureland dynamics and the slowdown of deforestation in Latin America

(2015) Jordan Graesser et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity

(2015) Mercedes M. C. Bustamante et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Determinants of the spatial distribution of cultivated land in the North Argentine Dry Chaco in a multi-decadal study

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Brazil's Soy Moratorium

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

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When enough should be enough: Improving the use of current agricultural lands could meet production demands and spare natural habitats in Brazil

(2014) Bernardo B.N. Strassburg et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Estimating area and map accuracy for stratified random sampling when the strata are different from the map classes

(2014) Stephen V. Stehman   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Cattle ranching intensification in Brazil can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by sparing land from deforestation

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Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

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

(2014) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

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Agricultural intensification in Brazil and its effects on land-use patterns: an analysis of the 1975-2006 period

(2013) Alberto G. O. P. Barretto et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach

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Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century

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Estimating area from an accuracy assessment error matrix

(2013) Stephen V. Stehman   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil

(2012) Geraldo B. Martha et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

(2012) David U. Hooper et al.   NATURE

Quantifying forest cover loss in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2000–2010, with Landsat ETM+ data

(2012) Peter V. Potapov et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE