The Amazon Basin is one of the world's most important bioregions, harboring a rich array of
plant and animal species and offering a wealth of goods and services to society. For years …

Abrupt forest disturbances generating gaps> 0.001 km2 impact roughly 0.4–0.7 million km2
a− 1. Fire, windstorms, logging, and shifting cultivation are dominant disturbances; minor …

Tropical rainforests store enormous amounts of carbon, the protection of which represents a
vital component of efforts to mitigate global climate change. Currently, tropical forest …

Amazon deforestation has been measured by remote sensing for three decades. In
comparison, selective logging has been mostly invisible to satellites. We developed a large …

The biomass of tropical forests plays an important role in the global carbon cycle, both as a
dynamic reservoir of carbon, and as a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere in areas …

Forest degradation is broadly defined as a reduction in the capacity of a forest to produce
ecosystem services such as carbon storage and wood products as a result of anthropogenic …

Live aboveground biomass (AGB) is an important source of uncertainty in the carbon
balance from the tropical regions in part due scarcity of reliable estimates of live AGB and its …

Over the past two decades, sets of timber harvesting guidelines designed to mitigate the
deleterious environmental impacts of tree felling, yarding, and hauling have become known …

Monitoring deforestation and forest degradation is central to assessing changes in carbon
storage, biodiversity, and many other ecological processes in tropical regions. Satellite …

Wood-decaying fungi are essential for the functioning of forest ecosystems. They provide
habitat for many other organisms and enable the regeneration of forests throughout the …