Balancing natural forest regrowth and tree planting to ensure social fairness and compliance with environmental policies

Hidden destruction of older forests threatens Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and challenges restoration programs

(2021) Marcos R. Rosa et al.   Science Advances

Achieving private conservation targets in Brazil through restoration and compensation schemes without impairing productive lands

(2021) Kaline de Mello et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Brazil's vegetation ravage may be encouraged by law

(2020) Gustavo H. Zaia Alves et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions

(2020) Robin Chazdon et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Unmasking secondary vegetation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon

(2020) Sâmia Nunes et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Achieving cost‐effective landscape‐scale forest restoration through targeted natural regeneration

(2020) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Conservation Letters

Forest regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon: Public policies and economic conditions

(2020) Márcio Saraiva et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Assessment of TerraClass and MapBiomas data on legend and map agreement for the Brazilian Amazon biome

(2020) Alana Kasahara NEVES et al.   ACTA AMAZONICA

Challenges and opportunities for large-scale reforestation in the Eastern Amazon using native species

(2020) Sâmia Nunes et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine

(2020) Carlos M. Souza et al.   Remote Sensing

The erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot

(2020) Renato A. F. de Lima et al.   Nature Communications

Evaluating the success of direct seeding for tropical forest restoration over ten years

(2019) Marina Guimarães Freitas et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

(2019) Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al.   Science Advances

Exotic eucalypts: from demonized trees to allies of tropical forest restoration?

(2019) Pedro H.S. Brancalion et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

What makes ecosystem restoration expensive? A systematic cost assessment of projects in Brazil

(2019) Pedro H.S. Brancalion et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A landscape approach for cost-effective large-scale forest restoration

(2018) Paulo Guilherme Molin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The ephemerality of secondary forests in southern Costa Rica

(2018) J. Leighton Reid et al.   Conservation Letters

Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs

(2018) Bernardo B. N. Strassburg et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

From hotspot to hopespot: An opportunity for the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

(2018) C.L. Rezende et al.   Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

Enabling large-scale forest restoration in Minas Gerais state, Brazil

(2017) Felipe S M Nunes et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Who owns the Brazilian carbon?

(2017) Flavio L. M. Freitas et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Limits of Brazil’s Forest Code as a means to end illegal deforestation

(2017) Andrea A. Azevedo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2017) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Science Advances

A global review of past land use, climate, and active vs. passive restoration effects on forest recovery

(2017) Paula Meli et al.   PLoS One

Biodiversity conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas

(2017) Ubirajara Oliveira et al.   Scientific Reports

Natural regeneration as a tool for large-scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

(2016) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

Local tropical forest restoration strategies affect tree recruitment more strongly than does landscape forest cover

(2016) Karen D. Holl et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Brazilian politics threaten environmental policies

(2016) P. M. Fearnside   SCIENCE

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

The use of nucleation techniques to restore the environment: a bibliometric analysis

(2014) Daniela Boanares et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot

(2014) C. Banks-Leite et al.   SCIENCE

Cracking Brazil's Forest Code

(2014) B. Soares-Filho et al.   SCIENCE

Extinction thresholds for Sapotaceae due to forest cover in Atlantic Forest landscapes

(2013) Marília Mascarenhas Lima et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Land-use and land-cover change in Atlantic Forest landscapes

(2012) Paula K. Lira et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation

(2009) Milton Cezar Ribeiro et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION