Fonseca, A., Souza Jr., C. & Veríssimo, A. 2015. Deforestation report for the Brazilian Amazon (April 2015) SAD (p. 10). Belém: Imazon. In April 2015, more than half (55%) of the forest area of the Brazilian Amazon was covered by clouds, a coverage slightly lower than in April 2014 (59%). The States with the greatest cloud
Gibbs, H. K., Munger, J., Roe, J. L., Barreto, P., Pereira, R., Christie, M., Amaral, T. & Walker, N. 2015. Did Ranchers and Slaughterhouses Respond to Zero-Deforestation Agreements in the Brazilian Amazon? Conservation Letters, 11. New supply chain interventions offer promise to reduce deforestation from expansion of commercial agriculture, as more multinational companies agree to stop sourcing from farms with
Arima, E. Y., Walker, R. T., Perz, S., & Souza Jr., C. 2015. Explaining the fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazonian forest. Journal of Land Use Science, 21. Although vast literature exists on the drivers of tropical deforestation and its ecological consequences, less is known about how patterns of forest fragmentation emerge in the first place.
Arima, E. Y., Walker, R. T., Perz, S., & Souza Jr., C. 2015. Explaining the fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazonian forest. Journal of Land Use Science, 21.