Changes in climate and land use over the Amazon region: current and future variability and trends

JA Marengo, CM Souza Jr, K Thonicke… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
This paper shows recent progress in our understanding of climate variability and trends in
the Amazon region, and how these interact with land use change. The review includes an …

Biodiversity and topographic complexity: modern and geohistorical perspectives

C Badgley, TM Smiley, R Terry, EB Davis… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2017‏ - cell.com
Topographically complex regions on land and in the oceans feature hotspots of biodiversity
that reflect geological influences on ecological and evolutionary processes. Over geologic …

The number of tree species on Earth

R Cazzolla Gatti, PB Reich, JGP Gamarra… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth.
However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges and taxonomic difficulties …

Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm

CA Nobre, G Sampaio, LS Borma… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
For half a century, the process of economic integration of the Amazon has been based on
intensive use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, which has brought …

How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity

X Feng, C Merow, Z Liu, DS Park, PR Roehrdanz… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin,, but is
increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire,. Here we quantify these impacts over the …

Amazon plant diversity revealed by a taxonomically verified species list

D Cardoso, T Särkinen, S Alexander… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
Recent debates on the number of plant species in the vast lowland rain forests of the
Amazon have been based largely on model estimates, neglecting published checklists …

[HTML][HTML] An attention-based U-Net for detecting deforestation within satellite sensor imagery

D John, C Zhang - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, we implement and analyse an Attention U-Net deep network for semantic
segmentation using Sentinel-2 satellite sensor imagery, for the purpose of detecting …

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora

H Ter Steege, NCA Pitman, D Sabatier, C Baraloto… - Science, 2013‏ - science.org
Introduction Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree
communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and …

High proportion of cactus species threatened with extinction

B Goettsch, C Hilton-Taylor, G Cruz-Piñón, JP Duffy… - Nature plants, 2015‏ - nature.com
A high proportion of plant species is predicted to be threatened with extinction in the near
future. However, the threat status of only a small number has been evaluated compared with …

Unveiling global species abundance distributions

CT Callaghan, L Borda-de-Água, R van Klink… - Nature ecology & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Whether most species are rare or have some intermediate abundance is a long-standing
question in ecology. Here, we use more than one billion observations from the Global …