The tropical forest cover has varied greatly over the last few decades. The rapid advance of
agricultural crops and illegal clearings in natural areas has resulted in the conversion of the …

Background Several independent lines of evidence suggest that Amazon forests have
provided a significant carbon sink service, and also that the Amazon carbon sink in intact …

Tracking land cover changes using remotely-sensed data contributes to evaluating to what
extent human activities impact the environment. Recent studies have pointed out some …

Central Rondônia is one of the most deforested regions in the Brazilian Amazon and
contains areas at different stages of degradation forming a gradient from mature forest to …

An accurate global carbon budget requires information on terrestrial carbon sink strength.
Regenerating tropical forests are known to be important terrestrial carbon sinks but …

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

The Large‐scale Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) is a multinational,
interdisciplinary research program led by Brazil. Ecological studies in LBA focus on how …

Tropical secondary vegetation is of particular interest as carbon sinks, potential lands for
agriculture and livestock expansion, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. Until …

Monitoring changes in land use intensity of grazing systems in the Amazon is an important
prerequisite to study the complex political and socio-economic forces driving Amazonian …

In quantifying the carbon budget of the Amazon region, temporal estimates of the extent and
age of regenerating tropical forests are fundamental. However, retrieving such information …