As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …

In June 2021 a new extreme flood was reported in the Amazon Basin, the largest
hydrological system on Earth. During this event water level was above 29 m (the emergency …

Abstract The Amazon River basin harbors some of the world's largest wetland complexes,
which are of major importance for biodiversity, the water cycle and climate, and human …

Amazonian deforestation has accelerated during the last decade, threatening an ecosystem
where almost one third of the regional rainfall is transpired by the local rainforest. Due to …

Water fluxes in the Amazon River floodplain affect hydrodynamic and ecological processes
from local to global scales, but they remain poorly understood due to difficult accessibility …

The southern Amazonia is undergoing a major biophysical transition, involving changes in
land use and regional climate. This study provides new insights on the relationship between …

The Amazon River Basin's extraordinary social–ecological system is sustained by various
water phases, fluxes, and stores that are interconnected across the tropical Andes …

The occurrence of rapid last glacial temperature shifts in both Greenland ice and subpolar
marine sediment cores, so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) cycles, is evidence of a tight …

Due to the global magnitude of forest degradation and deforestation and the high cost of
ecological restoration, several approaches have been used to prioritize conservation or …