This article summarizes the changes in landscape structure because of human land
management over the last several centuries, and using observed and modeled data …

Differing perceptions of the impacts on hydrological functions of tropical forest clearance and
conversion to other land uses have given rise to growing and often heated debate about …

The Earth's climate is determined by a number of complex connected physical, chemical and
biological processes occurring in the atmosphere, land and ocean. The radiative properties …

▪ Abstract Managed grazing covers more than 25% of the global land surface and has a
larger geographic extent than any other form of land use. Grazing systems persist under …

Expansion of the cattle and soy industries in the Amazon basin has increased deforestation
rates and will soon push all-weather highways into the region's core,,,. In the face of this …

This paper reviews recent progress made in our understanding of the functioning and
variability of the South American Monsoon System (SAMS) on time scales varying from …

Conservation scientists generally agree that many types of protected areas will be needed to
protect tropical forests. But little is known of the comparative performance of inhabited and …

An important goal of the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) research on the
American monsoon systems is to determine the sources and limits of predictability of warm …

Climatology of the Low-Level Jet East of the Andes as Derived from the NCEP–NCAR
Reanalyses: Characteristics and Temporal Variability in: Journal of Climate Volume 17 Issue 12 …

Some model experiments predict a large-scale substitution of Amazon forest by savannah-
like vegetation by the end of the twenty-first century. Expanding global demands for biofuels …