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Evaluation of Landsat-Based METRIC Modeling to Provide High-Spatial Resolution Evapotranspiration Estimates for Amazonian Forests by Numata, Izaya, Khand, Kul, Kjaersgaard, Jeppe, Cochrane, Mark A, Silva, Sonaira S

“…While forest evapotranspiration (ET) dynamics in the Amazon have been studied both as point estimates using flux towers, as well as spatially coarse surfaces…”
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The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation by Lapola, David M, Pinho, Patricia, Barlow, Jos, Aragão, Luiz E O C, Berenguer, Erika, Carmenta, Rachel, Liddy, Hannah M, Seixas, Hugo, Silva, Camila V J, Silva-Junior, Celso H L, Alencar, Ane A C, Anderson, Liana O, Armenteras, Dolors, Brovkin, Victor, Calders, Kim, Chambers, Jeffrey, Chini, Louise, Costa, Marcos H, Faria, Bruno L, Fearnside, Philip M, Ferreira, Joice, Gatti, Luciana, Gutierrez-Velez, Victor Hugo, Han, Zhangang, Hibbard, Kathleen, Koven, Charles, Lawrence, Peter, Pongratz, Julia, Portela, Bruno T T, Rounsevell, Mark, Ruane, Alex C, Schaldach, Rüdiger, da Silva, Sonaira S, von Randow, Celso, Walker, Wayne S

“…Approximately 2.5 × 10 square kilometers of the Amazon forest are currently degraded by fire, edge effects, timber extraction, and/or extreme drought,…”
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Dynamics of forest fires in the southwestern Amazon by Silva, Sonaira Souza da, Fearnside, Philip Martin, Graça, Paulo Mauricio Lima de Alencastro, Brown, Irving Foster, Alencar, Ane, Melo, Antonio Willian Flores de

“…•We mapped the fire regime in Acre state, Brazil over a 33-year period (1984–2016).•Fires have binary behavior between years with large and small areas…”
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To improve estimates of neotropical forest carbon stocks more direct measurements are needed: An example from the Southwestern Amazon by Melo, Antonio Willian Flores de, Lima, Adriano José Nogueira, d’Oliveira, Marcus Vinicio Neves, dos Santos, Joaquim, Brown, I. Foster, do Amaral, Eufran Ferreira, Silva, Sonaira Souza da, Oliveira, Igor, de Camargo, Plínio Barbosa, Higuchi, Niro

“…Tropical forests play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, storing 40–55 % of terrestrial plant carbon and significantly contributing to primary…”
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Amazonian forest degradation must be incorporated into the COP26 agenda by Silva Junior, Celso H. L., Carvalho, Nathália S., Pessôa, Ana C. M., Reis, João B. C., Pontes-Lopes, Aline, Doblas, Juan, Heinrich, Viola, Campanharo, Wesley, Alencar, Ane, Silva, Camila, Lapola, David M., Armenteras, Dolors, Matricardi, Eraldo A. T., Berenguer, Erika, Cassol, Henrique, Numata, Izaya, House, Joanna, Ferreira, Joice, Barlow, Jos, Gatti, Luciana, Brando, Paulo, Fearnside, Philip M., Saatchi, Sassan, Silva, Sonaira, Sitch, Stephen, Aguiar, Ana P., Silva, Carlos A., Vancutsem, Christelle, Achard, Frédéric, Beuchle, René, Shimabukuro, Yosio E., Anderson, Liana O., Aragão, Luiz E. O. C.

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Assessment of fire hazard in Southwestern Amazon by Ferreira, Igor J. M., Campanharo, Wesley A., Barbosa, Maria L. F., Silva, Sonaira S. da, Selaya, Galia, Aragão, Luiz E. O. C., Anderson, Liana O.

“…Fires are among the main drivers of forest degradation in Amazonia, causing multiple socioeconomic and environmental damages. Although human-ignited sources…”
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Increasing bamboo dominance in southwestern Amazon forests following intensification of drought-mediated fires by Silva, Sonaira Souza da, Fearnside, Philip Martin, Graça, Paulo Mauricio Lima de Alencastro, Numata, Izaya, Melo, Antonio Willian Flores de, Ferreira, Evandro Linhares, Aragão, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de, Santos, Edneia Araujo, Dias, Maury Sergio, Lima, Rodrigo Cunha, Lima, Pedro Raimundo Ferreira de

“…•Forest fires in Acre in 2005 and 2010 formed 120,000 ha of bamboo-dominated forest.•After fire, tree damage caused by the growth of bamboo culms can double or…”
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Amazon climate extremes: Increasing droughts and floods in Brazil’s state of Acre by Silva, Sonaira Souza da, Brown, Foster, Sampaio, Amanda de Oliveira, Silva, Ana Luiza Costa, Santos, Nairiane Cherlins Rodrigues Souza dos, Lima, Aroldo Carvalho, Aquino, Antônio Marcos de Souza, Silva, Paulo Henrique da Costa, Moreira, Jose Genivaldo do Vale, Oliveira, Igor, Costa, Alexandre Araújo, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…The intensification of extreme climate events is already a reality throughout the world. In the Brazilian Amazon, the most frequent extreme events are linked…”
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Roads in the Southwestern Amazon, State of Acre, between 2007 and 2019 by Nascimento, Eric de Souza, Silva, Sonaira Souza da, Bordignon, Leandra, Melo, Antonio Willian Flores de, Brandão, Amintas, Souza, Carlos M., Silva Junior, Celso H. L.

“…Over the past 40 years, roads have been the main driver behind the State of Acre’s occupation and development. However, the expansion of roads, has often been…”
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Mapping forest disturbances across the Southwestern Amazon: tradeoffs between open-source, Landsat-based algorithms by Reygadas, Yunuen, Spera, Stephanie, Galati, Valerie, Salisbury, David S, Silva, Sonaira, Novoa, Sidney

“…Local and cross-continental road building, increased economic teleconnections, growing agricultural demands, logging and mining practices, and general…”
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Impact of fires on an open bamboo forest in years of extreme drought in southwestern Amazonia by da Silva, Sonaira Souza, Numata, Izaya, Fearnside, Philip Martin, de Alencastro Graça, Paulo Mauricio Lima, Ferreira, Evandro José Linhares, dos Santos, Edneia Araújo, de Lima, Pedro Raimundo Ferreira, da Silva Dias, Maury Sergio, de Lima, Rodrigo Cunha, de Melo, Antonio Willian Flores

“…In Brazil’s state of Acre, in southwestern Amazonia, wildfires mediated by extreme droughts in 2005 and 2010 affected more than 500,000 ha of forest, causing…”
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Revisiting the knowledge exchange train: scaling up dialogue and partnering for participatory regional planning by Mendoza, Elsa R.H., Perz, Stephen G., Souza da Silva, Sonaira, Brown, I. Foster, Pinheiro, Paula Soares

“…In an integrated world, knowledge exchange is becoming more important for empowerment to participate in planning processes. This is particularly the case in…”
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Innovative fire policy in the Amazon: A statistical Hicks-Kaldor analysis by Morello, Thiago, Anderson, Liana, Silva, Sonaira

“…Developing countries have been recently addressing the respiratory health impact of agricultural burnings with innovative environmental policy. In Acre state,…”
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Fire and edge effects in a fragmented tropical forest landscape in the southwestern Amazon by Numata, Izaya, Silva, Sonaira S., Cochrane, Mark A., d'Oliveira, Marcus V.N.

“…•Fire impacts on AGB and stem density were significant four years after fires.•AGB in unburned and burned forests was indistinguishable nine years after…”
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Forest evapotranspiration dynamics over a fragmented forest landscape under drought in southwestern Amazonia by Numata, Izaya, Khand, Kul, Kjaersgaard, Jeppe, Cochrane, Mark A., Silva, Sonaira S.

“…•Dry season forest ET dynamics were strongly driven by cumulative water deficits.•Forest edges to 100m had 5% lower ET than core forests in the 2010…”
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There’s no smoke without fire by Anderson, Liana Oighenstein, Silva, Sonaira, Melo, Antônio W. F.

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Onde há fumaça, há fogo by Liana Oighenstein Anderson, Sonaira Silva, Antônio W. F. Melo

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Corrigendum to “Fire and edge effects in a fragmented tropical forest landscape in the southwestern Amazon” [Forest Ecol. Manage. 401 (2017) 135–146] by Numata, Izaya, Silva, Sonaira S., Cochrane, Mark A., d'Oliveira, Marcus V.N.

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Burning in southwestern Brazilian Amazonia, 2016–2019 by Silva, Sonaira Souza da, Oliveira, Igor, Morello, Thiago Fonseca, Anderson, Liana Oighenstein, Karlokoski, Adriele, Brando, Paulo Monteiro, Melo, Antonio Willian Flores de, Costa, Jéssica Gomes da, Souza, Francisco Salatiel Clemente de, Silva, Ismael Santos da, Nascimento, Eric de Souza, Pereira, Moises Parreiras, Almeida, Marllus Rafael Negreiros de, Alencar, Ane, Aragão, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de, Brown, Irving Foster, Graça, Paulo Mauricio Lima de Alencastro, Fearnside, Philip Martin

“…Fire is one of the most powerful modifiers of the Amazonian landscape and knowledge about its drivers is needed for planning control and suppression. A…”
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Onde há fumaça, há fogo by Anderson, Liana Oighenstein, Silva, Sonaira, Melo, Antônio W. F.

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