Large-scale degradation of Amazonian freshwater ecosystems

Agricultural expansion dominates climate changes in southeastern Amazonia: the overlooked non-GHG forcing

(2015) Divino V Silvério et al.   Environmental Research Letters

How illegal are tropical small-scale fisheries? An estimate for arapaima in the Amazon

(2015) Letícia Maria Cavole et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Use of dolphins and caimans as bait forCalophysus macropterus(Lichtenstein, 1819) (Siluriforme: Pimelodidae) in the Amazon

(2015) S. M. Brum et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY

Deforestation offsets water balance changes due to climate variability in the Xingu River in eastern Amazonia

(2015) Prajjwal K. Panday et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Potential effects of dam cascade on fish: lessons from the Yangtze River

(2015) Fei Cheng et al.   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Brazil's Soy Moratorium

(2015) H. K. Gibbs et al.   SCIENCE

Wetlands of the Lowland Amazon Basin: Extent, Vegetative Cover, and Dual-season Inundated Area as Mapped with JERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar

(2015) Laura L. Hess et al.   WETLANDS

Did Ranchers and Slaughterhouses Respond to Zero-Deforestation Agreements in the Brazilian Amazon?

(2015) Holly K. Gibbs et al.   Conservation Letters

Flood pulse effects on multispecies fishery yields in the Lower Amazon

(2015) Leandro Castello et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Giant otter population responses to habitat expansion and degradation induced by a mega hydroelectric dam

(2014) Ana Filipa Palmeirim et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Probabilistic meta-analysis of risk from the exposure to Hg in artisanal gold mining communities in Colombia

(2014) Eduardo De Miguel et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Downgrading, Downsizing, Degazettement, and Reclassification of Protected Areas in Brazil

(2014) E. BERNARD et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Offsetting the Impacts of Mining to Achieve No Net Loss of Native Vegetation

(2014) L. J. SONTER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Reservoir Stratification Affects Methylmercury Levels in River Water, Plankton, and Fish Downstream from Balbina Hydroelectric Dam, Amazonas, Brazil

(2014) Daniele Kasper et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Large reservoirs as ecological barriers to downstream movements of Neotropical migratory fish

(2014) Fernando M Pelicice et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Global demand for steel drives extensive land-use change in Brazil's Iron Quadrangle

(2014) Laura J. Sonter et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

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

Brazil's environmental leadership at risk

(2014) J. Ferreira et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2014) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

Cracking Brazil's Forest Code

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

Wildlife Harvest and Consumption in Amazonia's Urbanized Wilderness

(2014) Luke Parry et al.   Conservation Letters

Mercury Speciation in Hair of Children in Three Communities of the Amazon, Brazil

(2014) Jamile Salim Marinho et al.   Biomed Research International

Climate Change in the South American Monsoon System: Present Climate and CMIP5 Projections

(2013) Charles Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Drought and Deforestation: Has Land Cover Change Influenced Recent Precipitation Extremes in the Amazon?

(2013) Justin E. Bagley et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Feedbacks between deforestation, climate, and hydrology in the Southwestern Amazon: implications for the provision of ecosystem services

(2013) Letícia S. Lima et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Watershed responses to Amazon soya bean cropland expansion and intensification

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

Land-use-driven stream warming in southeastern Amazonia

(2013) M. N. Macedo et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales

(2013) Claudia M. Stickler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Elevated rates of gold mining in the Amazon revealed through high-resolution monitoring

(2013) G. P. Asner 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

The vulnerability of Amazon freshwater ecosystems

(2013) Leandro Castello et al.   Conservation Letters

Current state of knowledge regarding South America wetlands and their future under global climate change

(2012) Wolfgang J. Junk   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Implications of Dam Obstruction for Global Freshwater Fish Diversity

(2012) Catherine Reidy Liermann et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests

(2012) D. V. Spracklen et al.   NATURE

Elevated Mercury Concentrations in Humans of Madre de Dios, Peru

(2012) Katy Ashe   PLoS One

Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s

(2012) M. N. Macedo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The hydrology of the humid tropics

(2012) Ellen Wohl et al.   Nature Climate Change

The impact of global land-cover change on the terrestrial water cycle

(2012) Shannon M. Sterling et al.   Nature Climate Change

The effects of deforestation and climate variability on the streamflow of the Araguaia River, Brazil

(2011) M. T. Coe et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Developing channel and floodplain dimensions with limited data: a case study in the Amazon Basin

(2011) R. Edward Beighley et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

GHG emissions from hydroelectric reservoirs in tropical and equatorial regions: Review of 20 years of CH4 emission measurements

(2011) M. Demarty et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Environmental influences on the distribution of arapaima in Amazon floodplains

(2011) Caroline C. Arantes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES

High-yield oil palm expansion spares land at the expense of forests in the Peruvian Amazon

(2011) Víctor H Gutiérrez-Vélez et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Conversion to soy on the Amazonian agricultural frontier increases streamflow without affecting stormflow dynamics

(2011) SHELBY J. HAYHOE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

(2011) Paulo M. Brando et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evidence that deforestation affects the onset of the rainy season in Rondonia, Brazil

(2011) Nathalie Butt et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

CO2emissions from a tropical hydroelectric reservoir (Balbina, Brazil)

(2011) Alexandre Kemenes et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Global Prices, Deforestation, and Mercury Imports

(2011) Jennifer J. Swenson et al.   PLoS One

Assessment of deforestation in the Lower Amazon floodplain using historical Landsat MSS/TM imagery

(2011) Vivian F. Renó et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The 2010 Amazon Drought

(2011) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

A Classification of Major Naturally-Occurring Amazonian Lowland Wetlands

(2011) Wolfgang J. Junk et al.   WETLANDS

Nesting ecology of Podocnemis expansa (Schweigger, 1812) and Podocnemis unifilis (Troschel, 1848) (Testudines, Podocnemididae) in the Javaés River, Brazil

(2010) PD. Ferreira Júnior et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY

Mercury in the Tapajós River basin, Brazilian Amazon: A review

(2010) J.J. Berzas Nevado et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Recent developments on the South American monsoon system

(2010) J. A. Marengo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Depredation by Jaguars on Caimans and Importance of Reptiles in the Diet of Jaguar

(2010) Ronis Da Silveira et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

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

Dramatic Declines in North Atlantic Diadromous Fishes

(2009) Karin E. Limburg et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Incorporating thermal regimes into environmental flows assessments: modifying dam operations to restore freshwater ecosystem integrity

(2009) JULIAN D. OLDEN et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Appreciating tropical coastal wetlands from a landscape perspective

(2009) Katherine C Ewel   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The geomorphologic response of a large pristine alluvial river to tremendous deforestation in the South American tropics: The case of the Araguaia River

(2009) E.M. Latrubesse et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Assessing CITES non-detriment findings procedures forArapaimain Brazil

(2009) L. Castello et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

(2009) Y. Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

(2009) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

Pivotal temperature and sexual dimorphism of Podocnemis expansa hatchlings (Testudines: Podocnemididae) from Bananal Island, Brazil

(2009) Adélio Lubiana et al.   Zoologia

Andean Influences on the Biogeochemistry and Ecology of the Amazon River

(2008) Michael E. McClain et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

(2008) Robin Abell et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Conservation Value of Remnant Riparian Forest Corridors of Varying Quality for Amazonian Birds and Mammals

(2008) ALEXANDER C. LEES et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Nesting habitat of Arapaima gigas (Schinz) in Amazonian floodplains

(2008) L. Castello   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Importance of rare habitats and riparian zones in a tropical forest fragment: preferential use byTayassu pecari, a wide-ranging frugivore

(2008) A. Keuroghlian et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

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

(2008) Matt Finer et al.   PLoS One

Constructing a policy and institutional framework for an ecosystem-based approach to managing the Lower Amazon floodplain

(2008) David G. McGrath et al.   ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Lateral migration of Arapaima gigas in floodplains of the Amazon

(2007) L. Castello   ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH

Simulating the surface waters of the Amazon River basin: impacts of new river geomorphic and flow parameterizations

(2007) Michael T. Coe et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES