Amazonian biodiversity is increasingly threatened due to the weakening of policies for
combating deforestation, especially in Brazil. Loss of animal and plant species, many not yet …

We synthesize findings from one of the world's largest and longest‐running experimental
investigations, the B iological D ynamics of F orest F ragments P roject (BDFFP). Spanning …

We synthesize findings to date from the world's largest and longest-running experimental
study of habitat fragmentation, located in central Amazonia. Over the past 32years …

This article aims to analyze the influence of recent Brazilian political change demonstrating
like the measures taken by former President Meichel Temer and those promised in …

Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award. Cultural Forests
of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people …

Agricultural land use is a primary driver of environmental impacts on streams. However, the
causal processes that shape these impacts operate through multiple pathways and at …

Rapid urban expansion has had a significant impact on green space structure. A wide
variety of modelling approaches have been tested to simulate urban expansion; however …

State-controlled protected areas (PAs) have dominated conservation strategies globally, yet
their performance relative to other governance regimes is rarely assessed comprehensively …

Secondary forests (SFs) regenerating on previously deforested land account for large,
expanding areas of tropical forest cover. Given that tropical forests rank among Earth's most …

Following an intense occupation process that was initiated in the 1960s, deforestation rates
in the Brazilian Amazon have decreased significantly since 2004, stabilizing around 6000 …