This review attempts to synthesize the available literature on tropical dry forests and their
dynamics in the context of climate change and thereby identifies possible gaps and priority …

Abstract The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 shows that deforestation has
slowed and afforestation has increased globally during 1990–2015. Planted forests have …

Brazil's environmental legislation obliges private properties to retain a fixed proportion of
their total area with native vegetation, the so-called “Legal Reserves”. Those areas …

The main objective of our study was to provide consistent information on land cover changes
between the years 1990 and 2010 for the Cerrado and Caatinga Brazilian seasonal biomes …

South America's tropical dry forests and savannas are under increasing pressure from
agricultural expansion. Cattle ranching and soybean production both drive these forest …

Tropical dry woodlands are rapidly being lost to agricultural expansion, but how
deforestation dynamics play out in these woodlands remains poorly understood. We have …

Deforestation and fragmentation are major components of global change; both are
contributing to the rapid loss of tropical forest area with important implications for ecosystem …

Land use and land cover change (LUCC) affects regional climate through modifications in
the water balance and energy budget. These impacts are frequently expressed by: changes …

Abstract The eastern-central South American open vegetation biomes occur across an
extensive range of environmental conditions and are organized diagonally including three …

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often
incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution …