Abstract Changes in land use and ecosystem services influence each other and such
changes have consequences for human wellbeing. In this paper, we review the research …

Agriculture and development transform forest ecosystems to human‐modified landscapes.
Decades of research in ecology have generated myriad concepts for the appropriate …

It has been suggested that rainfall in the Amazon decreases if forest loss exceeds some
threshold, but the specific value of this threshold remains uncertain. Here, we investigate the …

High levels of evaporation and transpiration that forests produce throughout the year
contribute to a wetter at mospheric boundary layer than would be the case with nonforest …

This paper shows recent progress in our understanding of climate variability and trends in
the Amazon region, and how these interact with land use change. The review includes an …

For half a century, the process of economic integration of the Amazon has been based on
intensive use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, which has brought …

The Amazon rainforest is threatened by land-use change and increasing drought and fire
frequency. Studies suggest an abrupt dieback of large parts of the rainforest after partial …

Humans have altered terrestrial ecosystems for millennia [1], yet wilderness areas still
remain as vital refugia where natural ecological and evolutionary processes operate with …

Across South America, the expansion of commodity land uses has underpinned substantial
economic development at the expense of natural land cover and associated ecosystem …

Tower, ground-based and satellite observations indicate that tropical deforestation results in
warmer, drier conditions at the local scale. Understanding the regional or global impacts of …