Tropical forests provide essential environmental services to human well-being. In the world, Brazil has the largest continuous area of these forests. However, in the state of Maranhão, in the eastern Amazon, only 24% of the original forest cover remains. We integrated and analyzed active fires, burned area, land use and land cover, rainfall, and surface temperature datasets to understand forest fragmentation and forest fire dynamics from a remote sensing approach. We found that forest cover in the Maranhão Amazon region had a net reduction of 31,302 km2 between 1985 and 2017, with 63% of losses occurring in forest core areas. Forest edges extent was reduced by 38%, while the size of isolated forest patches increased by 239%. Forest fires im...
Many studies have assessed the process of forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon using remote se...
Forest fragmentation and deforestation are subjects of great concern in tropical regions, namely in ...
Fires are a fundamental part of the Earth System. In the last decades, they have been altering ecosy...
Amazonia is home to more than half of the world’s remaining tropical forests, playing a key ro...
Areas affected by forest fires that occurred in 2005 were mapped in the municipalities of Boca do Ac...
Amazonian forests are being rapidly cleared, and the remaining forest fragments appear unusually vul...
The synergism between climatic change and human action has provided conditions for the occurrence of...
The use of fire in tropics for land management and for forest clearing contributes to forest degrada...
Land management and deforestation in tropical regions cause wildfires and forest degradation, leadin...
The Amazon Basin is undergoing extensive environmental degradation as a result of deforestation and ...
The Brazilian Amazonian Forest is undergoing significant changes in land use and land cover in the l...
Fires are used as a tool in the deforestation process. Yet, the relationship between fire and defore...
Over recent decades, biomass gains in remaining old-growth Amazonia forests have declined due to env...
This work presents the dynamics of fire occurrences, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, forest clearing...
In this paper we analyse the extent of fire-induced forest degradation in Mato Grosso State, Brazil....
Many studies have assessed the process of forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon using remote se...
Forest fragmentation and deforestation are subjects of great concern in tropical regions, namely in ...
Fires are a fundamental part of the Earth System. In the last decades, they have been altering ecosy...
Amazonia is home to more than half of the world’s remaining tropical forests, playing a key ro...
Areas affected by forest fires that occurred in 2005 were mapped in the municipalities of Boca do Ac...
Amazonian forests are being rapidly cleared, and the remaining forest fragments appear unusually vul...
The synergism between climatic change and human action has provided conditions for the occurrence of...
The use of fire in tropics for land management and for forest clearing contributes to forest degrada...
Land management and deforestation in tropical regions cause wildfires and forest degradation, leadin...
The Amazon Basin is undergoing extensive environmental degradation as a result of deforestation and ...
The Brazilian Amazonian Forest is undergoing significant changes in land use and land cover in the l...
Fires are used as a tool in the deforestation process. Yet, the relationship between fire and defore...
Over recent decades, biomass gains in remaining old-growth Amazonia forests have declined due to env...
This work presents the dynamics of fire occurrences, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, forest clearing...
In this paper we analyse the extent of fire-induced forest degradation in Mato Grosso State, Brazil....
Many studies have assessed the process of forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon using remote se...
Forest fragmentation and deforestation are subjects of great concern in tropical regions, namely in ...
Fires are a fundamental part of the Earth System. In the last decades, they have been altering ecosy...