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

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

(2020) Peter Potapov et al.   Remote Sensing

Estimating the Potential for Conservation and Farming in the Amazon and Cerrado under Four Policy Scenarios

(2020) Amintas Brandão Jr. et al.   Sustainability

Why the US–China trade war spells disaster for the Amazon

(2019) Richard Fuchs et al.   NATURE

Expanding the Soy Moratorium to Brazil’s Cerrado

(2019) Aline C. Soterroni et al.   Science Advances

Reducing tropical deforestation

(2019) Frances Seymour et al.   SCIENCE

Soy expansion in Brazil's Cerrado

(2019) Lisa L. Rausch et al.   Conservation 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

Physical, ecological and human dimensions of environmental change in Brazil's Pantanal wetland: Synthesis and research agenda

(2019) Christopher Schulz et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

(2018) Svetlana Turubanova et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation

(2018) Eric F. Lambin et al.   Nature Climate Change

Increasing expansion of large-scale crop production onto deforested land in sub-Andean South America

(2018) Jordan Graesser et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Global land change from 1982 to 2016

(2018) Xiao-Peng Song et al.   NATURE

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

Intensification in agriculture-forest frontiers: Land use responses to development and conservation policies in Brazil

(2018) R.D. Garrett et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

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

Forest carbon emissions from cropland expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado biome

(2017) Praveen Noojipady 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

A multi-resolution approach to national-scale cultivated area estimation of soybean

(2017) LeeAnn King et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

National-scale soybean mapping and area estimation in the United States using medium resolution satellite imagery and field survey

(2017) Xiao-Peng Song et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

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

(2017) Alexandra Tyukavina et al.   Science Advances

Soy moratorium impacts on soybean and deforestation dynamics in Mato Grosso, Brazil

(2017) Jude H. Kastens et al.   PLoS One

Land-use change affects water recycling in Brazil's last agricultural frontier

(2016) Stephanie A. Spera et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Higher water-table levels and flooding risk under grain vs. livestock production systems in the subhumid plains of the Pampas

(2015) M.D. Nosetto et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America

(2015) V De Sy et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Brazil's Soy Moratorium

(2015) H. K. Gibbs et al.   SCIENCE

The Brazilian Cerrado: assessment of water and soil degradation in catchments under intensive agricultural use

(2014) Philip Hunke et al.   Ecohydrology

Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes

(2014) Patrick Meyfroidt et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Spatially complex land change: The Indirect effect of Brazil's agricultural sector on land use in Amazonia

(2014) Peter D. Richards et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

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

(2014) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

The Coupling of South American Soybean and Cattle Production Frontiers: New Challenges for Conservation Policy and Land Change Science

(2014) Nestor Ignacio Gasparri et al.   Conservation Letters

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

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

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

Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

(2011) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Soy Moratorium in the Amazon Biome Monitored by Remote Sensing Images

(2011) Bernardo Friedrich Theodor Rudorff et al.   Remote Sensing

The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon

(2010) Elizabeth Barona et al.   Environmental Research Letters