The Balbina hydropower dam in the Central Amazon basin, established in the Uatumã River
in the 1980s, is emblematic for its socio‐environmental disaster. Its environmental impacts …

Forest fires and deforestation are the main threats to the Amazon forest. Extreme drought
events exacerbate the impact of forest fire in the Amazon, and these drought events are …

Amazonian floodplain forests along large rivers consist of two distinct floras that are traced to
their differentiated sediment-and nutrient-rich (várzea) or sediment-and nutrient-poor (igapó) …

A bstract Across the tropics, climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of
wildfires, exposing tropical forests to the risk of shifting into an open vegetation state. A …

Selective logging, fragmentation, and understory fires directly degrade forest structure and
composition. However, studies addressing the effects of forest degradation on carbon, water …

Large dams built for hydroelectric power generation alter the hydrology of rivers, attenuating
the flood pulse downstream of the dam and impacting riparian and floodplain ecosystems …

The massive forests of central Amazonia are often considered relatively resilient against
climatic variation, but this view is challenged by the wildfires invoked by recent droughts …

While the climate and human-induced forest degradation is increasing in the Amazon, fire
impacts on forest dynamics remain understudied in the wetter regions of the basin, which …

Tropical savannas are known for the fire‐prone ecosystems, yet, riparian evergreen forests
are another important landscape feature. These forests usually remain safe from wildfires in …

Despite low in situ primary productivity, tropical oligotrophic rivers support highly diverse fish
assemblages and productive fisheries. This raises the question, what energy sources …