The Balbina hydropower dam in the Central Amazon basin, established in the Uatumã River
in the 1980s, is emblematic for its socio‐environmental disaster. Its environmental impacts …

Abstract Purpose of Review The goal of this review was to determine what constitutes
current challenges in effectively implementing sustainable forest operations in Amazonia …

We review a vast literature of Neotropical forest science and wood anatomical research that
identifies 220 tree species from 46 botanical families with confirmed annual tree-ring …

The long‐lived tree species Eschweilera tenuifolia (O. Berg) Miers is characteristic of
oligotrophic Amazonian black‐water floodplain forests (igapó), seasonally inundated up to …

Despite all efforts to promote sustainable use of timber resources in tropical forests, the
current management criteria still require adjustments at a species level, considering specific …

Purpose Due to a rapidly changing climate, voluntary carbon markets are gaining
momentum and should be leveraged to improve and expand tropical sustainable forest …

Key message We presented a method to determine the optimal wood production in Amazon
forest. The database that feeds the procedure is faster to obtain when compared to other …

We address tree diameter growth, linking it to a species-specific approach to managing terra
firme forests in the Amazon, based on a long-term forest experiment testing the effect of tree …

Wood anatomical features such as vessels record paleo climatic and environmental signals
through their physiological adjustment during the environmental stress condition. Using …

The presence of distinct growth rings in a large number of tropical tree species has allowed
a range of studies involving the growth history during the life span of the tree. This work …