We review the consequences of environmental changes caused by human activities on
forest products and forest-dependent communities in the Amazon region—the vast …

An important aspect of the sustainable management of tropical rain forests is the
maintenance of genetic diversity within populations of commercial tree species. Logging …

It is well documented that the negative effects of habitat fragmentation are strong enough to
promote local as well as regional extinction of canopy and emergent trees in neotropical …

Biodiversity research and prospecting are long-standing activities taking place in a new
legal and ethical environment. Following entry into force of the Convention on Biological …

In this paper, we present a methodology to map classes of degraded forest in the Eastern
Amazon. Forest degradation field data, available in the literature, and 1-m resolution …

From towers constructed at the interface between second‐growth forest and an active and
an abandoned pasture, we observed inter‐habitat movements of fruit‐eating birds in eastern …

Over the last three decades, forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon has diminished the
availability of some widely used medicinal plant species. Results of a 9-year market study …

Rain forest logging is spreading in eastern Amazonia, and logging practices are careless,
resulting in much unnecessary damage. We considered the technical feasibility, efficiency …

Mahogany, Swietenia macrophylla King, is by far the most valuable timber species in the
Brazilian Amazon: 1 m3 of export-quality sawn wood was valued at about …

Sustainable production of timber from commercial species across felling cycles is a core
challenge for tropical silviculture. In this study, we analysed how the intensity and type …