Understanding spatial patterns of land use and land cover is essential for studies
addressing biodiversity, climate change and environmental modeling as well as for the …

Forest cover change directly affects biodiversity, the global carbon budget, and ecosystem
function. Within Latin American and the Caribbean region (LAC), many studies have …

Understanding the main drivers of species extinction in human‐modified landscapes has
gained paramount importance in proposing sound conservation strategies. Primates play a …

Agricultural expansion and intensification in South America's dry forests and grasslands
increase agricultural production, but also result in major environmental trade-offs. The …

The study estimated, for the first time, the greenhouse gas emissions associated with cattle
raising in Brazil, focusing on the period from 2003 to 2008 and the three principal sources …

Abstract The Brazilian Amazon has experienced one of the world's highest deforestation
rates in the last decades. Cattle ranching and soy expansion constitute the major drivers of …

This paper provides the first analysis at the sub-municipality scale of the relationships
between population densities and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 2000 and …

We analysed land cover changes and associated farm system changes in the Mar Chiquita
basin, a highly productive agricultural area in the Argentinian Pampa region. Changes in …

Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple
ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, and climate …

We present a generic spatially explicit modeling framework to estimate carbon emissions
from deforestation (INPE‐EM). The framework incorporates the temporal dynamics related to …