Food production and consumption have a range of sustainability implications, including their
contribution to global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). As some foodstuffs entail …

Tropical forests play a major role in determining the current atmospheric concentration of CO
2, as both sources of CO 2 following deforestation and sinks of CO 2 probably resulting from …

Enhancing and conserving carbon pools in vegetation is a major climate change mitigation
strategy. The dynamics of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems depend on processes like …

The net flux of carbon from land use and land-cover change (LULCC) accounted for 12.5%
of anthropogenic carbon emissions from 1990 to 2010. This net flux is the most uncertain …

Oil palm supplies> 30% of world vegetable oil production. Plantation expansion is occurring
throughout the tropics, predominantly in Indonesia, where forests with heterogeneous …

A recently completed research program (TREES) employing the global imaging capabilities
of Earth-observing satellites provides updated information on the status of the world's humid …

Application of organic fertilizers and charcoal increase nutrient stocks in the rooting zone of
crops, reduce nutrient leaching and thus improve crop production on acid and highly …

Brazil's Amazon forest remained largely intact until the “modern” era of deforestation began
with the inauguration of the Transamazon Highway in 1970. Amazonian deforestation rates …

Amazonian deforestation rates are used to determine human effects on the global carbon
cycle,, and to measure Brazil's progress in curbing forest impoverishment,,. But this widely …

Uncertainty in biomass estimates is one of the greatest limitations to models of carbon flux in
tropical forests. Previous comparisons of field‐based estimates of the aboveground biomass …