Search Results - "Philip Martin Fearnside"

Synthesizing the connections between environmental disturbances and zoonotic spillover by ELLWANGER, JOEL HENRIQUE, FEARNSIDE, PHILIP MARTIN, ZILIOTTO, MARINA, VALVERDE-VILLEGAS, JACQUELINE MARÍA, VEIGA, ANA BEATRIZ G. DA, VIEIRA, GUSTAVO F., BACH, EVELISE, CARDOSO, JÁDER C., MÜLLER, NÍCOLAS FELIPE D., LOPES, GABRIEL, CAESAR, LÍLIAN, KULMANN-LEAL, BRUNA, KAMINSKI, VALÉRIA L., SILVEIRA, ETIELE S., SPILKI, FERNANDO R., WEBER, MATHEUS N., ALMEIDA, SABRINA E. DE MATOS, HORA, VANUSA P. DA, CHIES, JOSÉ ARTUR B.

“…Abstract Zoonotic spillover is a phenomenon characterized by the transfer of pathogens between different animal species. Most human emerging infectious…”
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Deforestation Trajectories on a Development Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon: 35 Years of Settlement Colonization, Policy and Economic Shifts, and Land Accumulation by Carrero, Gabriel Cardoso, Fearnside, Philip Martin, do Valle, Denis Ribeiro, de Souza Alves, Cristiano

“…We examine deforestation processes in Apuí, a deforestation hotspot in Brazil’s state of Amazonas and present processes of land-use change on this Amazonian…”
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Brazil's Cerrado cannot be a sacrifice zone for the Amazon: financial assistance and stricter laws are needed by Pereira, Cássio Cardoso, Fernandes, Stephannie, Kenedy-Siqueira, Walisson, Negreiros, Daniel, Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson, Fearnside, Philip Martin

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Brazil’s policies condemn Amazonia to a second wave of COVID-19 by Ferrante, Lucas, Steinmetz, Wilhelm Alexander, Almeida, Alexandre Celestino Leite, Leão, Jeremias, Vassão, Ruth Camargo, Tupinambás, Unaí, Fearnside, Philip Martin, Duczmal, Luiz Henrique

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Brazil’s planned exploitation of Amazonian indigenous lands for commercial agriculture increases risk of new pandemics by Ferrante, Lucas, Barbosa, Reinaldo Imbrozio, Duczmal, Luiz, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…We report the emergence of a new production chain for commercial food that aims to maximize profit to the detriment of the environment and traditional…”
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Effects of Amazonian Flying Rivers on Frog Biodiversity and Populations in the Atlantic Rainforest by Ferrante, Lucas, Getirana, Augusto, Baccaro, Fabricio Beggiato, Schöngart, Jochen, Leonel, Ana Cristina Monteiro, Gaiga, Renato, Garey, Michel Varajão, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…Given the speed at which humans are changing the climate, species with high degrees of endemism may not have time to avoid extinction through adaptation. We…”
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Deforestation dynamics in Brazil's Amazonian settlements: Effects of land-tenure concentration by Yanai, Aurora Miho, Graça, Paulo Maurício Lima de Alencastro, Escada, Maria Isabel Sobral, Ziccardi, Leonardo Guimarãoes, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…Brazil's Amazon deforestation is a major global and national environmental concern, and the ability to model and project both its course and the effect of…”
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How Brazil’s President turned the country into a global epicenter of COVID-19 by Ferrante, Lucas, Duczmal, Luiz, Steinmetz, Wilhelm Alexander, Almeida, Alexandre Celestino Leite, Leão, Jeremias, Vassão, Ruth Camargo, Tupinambás, Unaí, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…In this manuscript, we point out that the federal government headed by President Bolsonaro has pursued a political agenda that contributed to the spread of…”
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Parks under attack: Brazil’s Iguaçu National Park illustrates a global threat to biodiversity by Prasniewski, Victor Mateus, Szinwelski, Neucir, Sobral-Souza, Thadeu, Kuczach, Angela Marcia, Brocardo, Carlos Rodrigo, Sperber, Carlos Frankl, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…National parks are under attack in many parts of the world, including Brazil, which the Convention on Biodiversity ranks as the world’s most biodiverse…”
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Carbon stocks and losses to deforestation in protected areas in Brazilian Amazonia by Nogueira, Euler Melo, Yanai, Aurora Miho, de Vasconcelos, Sumaia Saldanha, de Alencastro Graça, Paulo Maurício Lima, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…By 2014 approximately 2.2 million km 2 (~43%) of Brazil’s Legal Amazonia region had been incorporated into an extensive network of 718 protected areas, which…”
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Estimates of forest biomass in the Brazilian Amazon: New allometric equations and adjustments to biomass from wood-volume inventories by Nogueira, Euler Melo, Fearnside, Philip Martin, Nelson, Bruce Walker, Barbosa, Reinaldo Imbrozio, Keizer, Edwin Willem Hermanus

“…Uncertainties in biomass estimates in Amazonian forests result in a broad range of possible magnitude for the emissions of carbon from deforestation and other…”
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Deforestation Dynamics on an Amazonian Peri-Urban Frontier: Simulating the Influence of the Rio Negro Bridge in Manaus, Brazil by Ramos, Camila Julia Pacheco, de Alencastro Graça, Paulo Maurício Lima, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…Peri-urban expansion is an increasingly important source of tropical deforestation, and a bridge over the Rio Negro in Brazil’s state of Amazonas provides an…”
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Forest fires facilitate growth of herbaceous bamboos in central Amazonia by Ziccardi, Leonardo Guimarães, dos Reis, Mateus, Graça, Paulo Maurício Lima de Alencastro, Gonçalves, Nathan Borges, Pontes‐Lopes, Aline, Aragão, Luiz E. O. C., de Oliveira, Reyjane Patricia, Clark, Lynn, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…Severe droughts in Amazonia caused by El Niño and Atlantic dipole events are expected to become more frequent due to anthropogenic climate change. These…”
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Brazil’s Amazonian deforestation: the role of landholdings in undesignated public lands by Yanai, Aurora Miho, de Alencastro Graça, Paulo Maurício Lima, Ziccardi, Leonardo Guimarães, Escada, Maria Isabel Sobral, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…The impact of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia is a global concern, and land occupation in public lands contributes to increased deforestation rates. Little…”
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Brazilian wetlands on the brink by Grasel, Daniel, Fearnside, Philip Martin, Vitule, Jean Ricardo Simões, Bozelli, Reinaldo Luiz, Mormul, Roger Paulo, Rodrigues, Ricardo Ribeiro, Wittmann, Florian, Agostinho, Angelo Antonio, Jarenkow, João André

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Allometric Equations for Volume, Biomass, and Carbon in Commercial Stems Harvested in a Managed Forest in the Southwestern Amazon: A Case Study by Flora Magdaline Benitez Romero, Laércio Antônio Gonçalves Jacovine, Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro, Carlos Moreira Miquelino Eleto Torres, Liniker Fernandes da Silva, Ricardo de Oliveira Gaspar, Samuel José Silva Soares da Rocha, Christina Lynn Staudhammer, Philip Martin Fearnside

“…Forests in the southwestern Amazon are rich, diverse, and dense. The region is of high ecological importance, is crucial for conservation and management of…”
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Dynamics of COVID-19 in Amazonia: A history of government denialism and the risk of a third wave by Ferrante, Lucas, Duczmal, Luiz Henrique, Capanema, Eduardo, Steinmetz, Wilhelm Alexander Cardoso, Almeida, Alexandre Celestino Leite, Leão, Jeremias, Vassão, Ruth Camargo, Fearnside, Philip Martin, Tupinambás, Unaí

“…The city of Manaus (the capital of Brazil’s state of Amazonas) has become a key location for understanding the dynamics of the global pandemic of COVID-19…”
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Forest fire risk indices and zoning of hazardous areas in Sorocaba, São Paulo state, Brazil by Ziccardi, Leonardo Guimarães, Thiersch, Cláudio Roberto, Yanai, Aurora Miho, Fearnside, Philip Martin, Ferreira-Filho, Pedro José

“…This study compares the performance of three fire risk indices for accuracy in predicting fires in semi-deciduous forest fragments, creates a fire risk map by…”
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PEDO-TRANSFER FUNCTIONS FOR ESTIMATING SOIL BULK DENSITY IN CENTRAL AMAZONIA by Barros, Henrique Seixas, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…Under field conditions in the Amazon forest, soil bulk density is difficult to measure. Rigorous methodological criteria must be applied to obtain reliable…”
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Wood Basic Density in Large Trees: Impacts on Biomass Estimates in the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon by Flora Magdaline Benitez Romero, Thais de Nazaré Oliveira Novais, Laércio Antônio Gonçalves Jacovine, Eronildo Braga Bezerra, Rosana Barbosa de Castro Lopes, Juliana Sousa de Holanda, Edi Flores Reyna, Philip Martin Fearnside

“…Wood basic density (WD) plays a crucial role in estimating forest biomass; moreover, improving wood-density estimates is needed to reduce uncertainties in the…”
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