Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics

Uncovering major types of deforestation frontiers across the world’s tropical dry woodlands

(2022) Ana Buchadas et al.   Nature Sustainability

Long-term (1990–2019) monitoring of forest cover changes in the humid tropics

(2021) C. Vancutsem et al.   Science Advances

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

(2021) Viviana Zalles et al.   Science Advances

Characterizing forest disturbances across the Argentine Dry Chaco based on Landsat time series

(2021) Teresa De Marzo et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation

(2021) Xiao-Peng Song et al.   Nature Sustainability

Integrating inductive and deductive analysis to identify and characterize archetypical social-ecological systems and their changes

(2021) Manuel Pacheco-Romero et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people

(2021) Christian Levers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mapping social-ecological systems archetypes

(2020) Juan Rocha et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Poor availability of context-specific evidence hampers decision-making in conservation

(2020) Alec P. Christie et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth’s remaining moist tropical forests

(2020) Andrew J. Hansen et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Private-land control and deforestation dynamics in the context of implementing the Native Forest Law in the Northern Argentinian Dry Chaco

(2020) Sofia Marinaro et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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

Framing the search for a theory of land use

(2020) BL Turner et al.   Journal of Land Use Science

The origin, supply chain, and deforestation risk of Brazil’s beef exports

(2020) Erasmus K. H. J. zu Ermgassen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hierarchical mapping of annual global land cover 2001 to present: The MODIS Collection 6 Land Cover product

(2019) Damien Sulla-Menashe et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions

(2019) Florence Pendrill et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

(2019) Michael A. Wulder et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts

(2019) Allison M Thomson et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Tropical deforestation drivers and associated carbon emission factors derived from remote sensing data

(2019) V De Sy et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

(2019) P. Potapov et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Beyond deforestation: Land cover transitions in Mexico

(2019) Martha Bonilla-Moheno et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Transitioning from change detection to monitoring with remote sensing: A paradigm shift

(2019) Curtis E. Woodcock et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Long-term land cover change in Zambia: An assessment of driving factors

(2019) Darius Phiri et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Combining global tree cover loss data with historical national forest cover maps to look at six decades of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar

(2018) Ghislain Vieilledent et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Tropical savannas and dry forests

(2018) R. Toby Pennington et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia

(2018) Svetlana Turubanova et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized knowledge from case studies of social-ecological systems

(2018) Nicholas R. Magliocca et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Silvopastoral systems of the Chaco forests: Effects of trees on grass growth

(2018) Pablo Baldassini et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Reconstructing long term annual deforestation dynamics in Pará and Mato Grosso using the Landsat archive

(2018) Patrick Griffiths et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Middle-range theories of land system change

(2018) P. Meyfroidt et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2018) Viviana Zalles et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing

(2018) Alexandra Tyukavina et al.   Science Advances

Lost forever? Ecosystem functional changes occurring after agricultural abandonment and forest recovery in the semiarid Chaco forests

(2018) M. Basualdo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Trends in size of tropical deforestation events signal increasing dominance of industrial-scale drivers

(2017) Kemen G Austin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Using spatial statistics to identify emerging hot spots of forest loss

(2017) Nancy L Harris et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco

(2017) Verena Fehlenberg et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

(2017) Noel Gorelick et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot

(2017) Bernardo B. N. Strassburg et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Hotspots of land use change in Europe

(2016) Tobias Kuemmerle et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Carbon emissions from agricultural expansion and intensification in the Chaco

(2016) Matthias Baumann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long-term deforestation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon—Uncovering historic frontier development along the Cuiabá–Santarém highway

(2016) Hannes Müller et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Optical remotely sensed time series data for land cover classification: A review

(2016) Cristina Gómez et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands

(2016) Kimberly M. Carlson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Creating space for large-scale restoration in tropical agricultural landscapes

(2015) Agnieszka E Latawiec et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Key factors which influence the success of community forestry in developing countries

(2015) Jack Baynes et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Transformation dynamics of the natural cover in the Dry Chaco ecoregion: A plot level geo-database from 1976 to 2012

(2015) María Vallejos et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Spatial patterns of agricultural expansion determine impacts on biodiversity and carbon storage

(2015) Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Implications of agricultural transitions and urbanization for ecosystem services

(2014) Graeme S. Cumming et al.   NATURE

Actor-specific contributions to the deforestation slowdown in the Brazilian Amazon

(2014) J. Godar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The spontaneous emergence of silvo-pastoral landscapes in the Ecuadorian Amazon: patterns and processes

(2014) Amy M. Lerner et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

(2014) Pontus Olofsson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Mapping global land system archetypes

(2013) Tomáš Václavík et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

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

(2013) E.F. Lambin et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Regional patterns and controls of biomass in semiarid woodlands: lessons from the Northern Argentina Dry Chaco

(2013) Nestor Ignacio Gasparri et al.   Regional Environmental Change

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

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries

(2012) Noriko Hosonuma et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Ecosystem functional changes associated with land clearing in NW Argentina

(2011) J.N. Volante et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Inequalities, institutions, and forest commons

(2011) Krister Andersson et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Deforestation and cattle ranching drive rapid range expansion of capybara in the Gran Chaco ecosystem

(2010) JUAN M. CAMPOS-KRAUER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

(2010) H. K. Gibbs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

(2010) H. C. J. Godfray et al.   SCIENCE

Deforestation and fragmentation of Chaco dry forest in NW Argentina (1972–2007)

(2009) N. Ignacio Gasparri et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets

(2009) Mark A. Friedl et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT