Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests
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Tropical forest clearing due to large-scale expansion of soybeans and oil palm in response to food and feed demands has already been observed over the last two decades.
“In fact, we have already observed tropical forest clearing due to large-scale expansion of soybeans and oil palm in response to food and feed demands over the last two decades”
From Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: the effects of changing yield and technology (2008) · cites this paper as Nepstad et al 2001
Extensive cattle ranching is thought to have low and less seasonal labor demands relative to most systems of crop production, particularly nonmechanized fruit and horticulture production.
“First, extensive cattle ranching is thought to have low and less seasonal labor demands relative to most systems of crop production (Hecht 1993, Muchagata andBrown 2003), particularly nonmechanized fruit and horticulture production (Nepstad et al. 2001).”
From Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon (2017) · cites this paper as Nepstad et al. 2001
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- Authors
- Nepstad, D., Carvalho, G., Cristina Barros, A., Alencar, A., Paulo Capobianco, J., Bishop, J., Moutinho, P., Lefebvre, P., Lopes Silva, U., & Prins, E.
- Affiliations
- Woodwell Climate Research Center (US)
- Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (BR)
- International Institute for Environment and Development (GB)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
- Corresponding author
- Nepstad, Daniel
- Venue
- Forest Ecology and Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2001-12
- Volume
- 154
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 395-407
- ISSN
- 0378-1127 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2056724844
- Cited by
- 712
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 23.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Forest Ecology and Management (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- United States Agency for International Development
- Tinker Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Forest Management and Policy
- Keywords
- street paving, Amazon rainforest, forest fires, drought, fire susceptibility, fuel load, frontier expansion, deforestation, logging, understory fires, land use policy
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