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Increasing tree size across Amazonia Open

Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Rebecca Banbury Morgan, Roel Brienen, Emanuel Gloor, Simon L. Lewis , et al. · 2025

ATBC Code of Conduct Open

Farah Carrasco‐Rueda, Catherine L. Cardelús, Yolanda Chirango, Claudia Garnica‐Díaz, Biplang G. Yadok , et al. · 2025

Conservation easements target high quality lands but do not increase their quality Open

Nicholas E. Kolarik, Megan E. Cattau, Carolyn Koehn, Anand Roopsind, Matthew A. Williamson , et al. · 2025

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change Open

Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Sandra Dı́az, Sami W. Rifai, José Javier Corral‐Rivas, María Guadalupe Nava‐Miranda , et al. · 2025

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-biodiversity tropical forests. Here, we …

Balancing land use for conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy Open

Cameryn Brock, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Tim Beringer, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, Brian J. Enquist , et al. · 2024

Demand for land is increasing due to mounting energy and development needs. Growing demand for food coupled with climate policy commitments calling for reduced greenhouse gas emissions will result in more land being used for agricultural a…

Logging emissions from a Forest Stewardship Council certified forest in Guyana Open

Anand Roopsind, Ken Rodney, Linsford Lagoudou, Francis E. Putz · 2024

Logging is a dominant land-use activity across the tropics and a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. This study quantifies emissions from selective logging in a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified concession in Guyana th…

Withdrawal and Expansion: A Decade of Dynamic Ungulate Distribution in Amazonian Lowland Sanctuaries (2010-2020) Open

Luís Pedro Pratas-Santiago, Valeria Boron, John G. Blake, Diego Mosquera, Santiago Espinosa , et al. · 2024

Gestión forestal para la producción de madera y restauración del paisaje forestal en la Amazonía Open

Plínio Sist, Marielos Peña‐Claros, Juan Pablo Baldiviezo Calles, Géraldine Derroire, Milton Kanashiro , et al. · 2023

Las directrices actuales para el aprovechamiento legal de madera de bosques naturales en la Amazonía (alrededor de 20 m3 ha-1 de madera aprovechada cada 15-35 años) no son sostenibles. El creciente interés por la restauración de bosques tr…

Manejo florestal para produção de madeira e restauração de paisagens florestais Open

Plínio Sist, Marielos Peña‐Claros, Juan Pablo Baldiviezo Calles, Géraldine Derroire, Milton Kanashiro , et al. · 2023

Diretrizes atuais para extrações legais de madeira das florestas naturais na Amazônia (em torno de 20 m3 ha-1 de madeira extraída a cada 15-35 anos) não são sustentáveis. O crescente interesse na restauração de florestas tropicais oferece …

Forest management for timber production and forest landscape restoration in the Amazon: The way towards sustainability Open

Plínio Sist, Marielos Peña‐Claros, Juan Pablo Baldiviezo Calles, Géraldine Derroire, Milton Kanashiro , et al. · 2023

Current guidelines for legal timber harvests are not sustainable. Timber yields can be substantially enhanced by the application of cost-effective silvicultural treatments that increase stocking and growth of timber trees. Growing interest…

Variable shifts in bird and bat assemblages as a result of reduced‐impact logging revealed after 10 years Open

Arianne E. Harris, Gyanpriya Maharaj, Matthew T. Hallett, Raquel Thomas, Anand Roopsind , et al. · 2023

Selective logging is the most widespread driver of land‐use change in biodiverse and carbon‐rich tropical forests. However, the effects of selective logging on biodiversity are less than those associated with other drivers of forest degrad…

Overlapping extractive land use rights increases deforestation and forest degradation in managed natural production forests Open

Bingcai Liu, Anand Roopsind, Brent Sohngen · 2023

Guyana manages an estimated 5.3 million hectares of old-growth tropical forests, 29% of its total forest area, for timber extraction. Individuals and companies can apply for time-limited leases that allocate access, management, and extract…

Liana cutting in selectively logged forests increases both carbon sequestration and timber yields Open

Francis E. Putz, Denver T. Cayetano, Ethan P. Belair, Peter W. Ellis, Anand Roopsind , et al. · 2023

Infestations of trees by woody climbing plants (i.e., lianas) are common and increasing in an estimated 250 Mha of the 1 billion hectares of mixed-species tropical and temperate forest subjected to selective logging. Cutting lianas that im…

A satellite-based monitoring system for quantifying surface water and mesic vegetation dynamics in a semi-arid region Open

Nicholas E. Kolarik, Anand Roopsind, Amy Pickens, Jodi Brandt · 2023

Semi-arid and arid systems cover one third of the earth’s land surface, and are becoming increasingly drier, but existing datasets do not capture all of the types of water resources that sustain these systems. In semi-arid environments, sm…

Logging Emissions from a Forest Stewardship Council Certified Forest in Guyana Open

Anand Roopsind, Ken Rodney, Linsford Lagoudou, Francis E. Putz · 2023

Sustained timber yield claims, considerations, and tradeoffs for selectively logged forests Open

Francis E. Putz, Claudia Romero, Plínio Sist, Gustavo Schwartz, Ian D. Thompson , et al. · 2022

What is meant by sustainability depends on what is sustained and at what level. Sustainable forest management, for example, requires maintenance of a variety of values not the least of which is sustained timber yields (STYs). For the 1 Bha…

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests Open

Thaiane R. Sousa, Juliana Schietti, Igor Oliveira Ribeiro, Thaíse Emilio, Rafael Herrera Fernández , et al. · 2022

Aim Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and …

Detecting Gold Mining Impacts on Insect Biodiversity in a Tropical Mining Frontier with SmallSat Imagery Open

Eric Stoll, Anand Roopsind, Gyanpriya Maharaj, Sandra Velazco, T. Trevor Caughlin · 2022

Gold mining is a major driver of Amazonian forest loss and degradation. In this study, we set out to detect artisanal gold mining using high-resolution imagery and relate mining land cover to insects’ diversity and abundance. Our OBIA was …

Removing climbers more than doubles tree growth and biomass in degraded tropical forests Open

Catherine Finlayson, Anand Roopsind, Bronson W. Griscom, David P. Edwards, Robert P. Freckleton · 2022

Huge areas of tropical forests are degraded, reducing their biodiversity, carbon, and timber value. The recovery of these degraded forests can be significantly inhibited by climbing plants such as lianas. Removal of super‐abundant climbers…

Detecting gold mining impacts on insect biodiversity in a tropical mining frontier with <span>SmallSat</span> imagery Open

Eric Stoll, Anand Roopsind, Gyanpriya Maharaj, Sandra Velazco, T. Trevor Caughlin · 2022

Gold mining is a major driver of Amazonian forest loss and degradation. As mining activity encroaches on primary forest in remote and inaccessible areas, satellite imagery provides crucial data for monitoring mining‐related deforestation. …

Corrigendum: Intact Forest in Selective Logging Landscapes in the Tropics Open

Francis E. Putz, Tracy Baker, Bronson W. Griscom, Trisha Gopalakrishna, Anand Roopsind , et al. · 2021

CORRECTION article Front. For. Glob. Change, 28 April 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.658469

Evidence that a national REDD+ program reduces tree cover loss and carbon emissions in a high forest cover, low deforestation country Open

Anand Roopsind, Brent Sohngen, Jodi Brandt · 2019

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is a climate change mitigation policy in which rich countries provide payments to developing countries for protecting their forests. In 2009, the countries of Norway and …

Issue Information ‐ TOC Open

Emily A. Botts, Genevieve Pence, Stephen Holness, Kerry Sink, Andrew Skowno , et al. · 2019

The Americas, excluding Canada & Mexico), US$1,667 (Canada/Mexico), US$2,801 (Rest of World), €1,817 (Europe), £1,431 (UK

Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests Open

Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kyle G. Dexter, Oliver L. Phillips, R. Toby Pennington, Danilo M. Neves , et al. · 2019

Intact Forest in Selective Logging Landscapes in the Tropics Open

Francis E. Putz, Tracy Baker, Bronson W. Griscom, Trisha Gopalakrishna, Anand Roopsind , et al. · 2019

The selective logging that characterizes most timber extraction operations in the tropics leaves large patches of logging blocks (i.e., areas allocated for harvesting) intact, without evidence of direct impacts. For example, in ~10,000 ha …

Reduced-impact logging for climate change mitigation (RIL-C) can halve selective logging emissions from tropical forests Open

Peter W. Ellis, Trisha Gopalakrishna, Rosa C. Goodman, Francis E. Putz, Anand Roopsind , et al. · 2019

Selective logging causes at least half of the emissions from tropical forest degradation. Reduced-impact logging for climate (RIL-C) is proposed as a way to maintain timber production while minimizing forest damage. Here we synthesize data…

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change Open

Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Timothy R. Baker, Kyle G. Dexter, Simon L. Lewis, Roel Brienen , et al. · 2018

Most of the planet's diversity is concentrated in the tropics, which includes many regions undergoing rapid climate change. Yet, while climate‐induced biodiversity changes are widely documented elsewhere, few studies have addressed this is…

Trade‐offs between carbon stocks and timber recovery in tropical forests are mediated by logging intensity Open

Anand Roopsind, T. Trevor Caughlin, Peter van der Hout, E.J.M.M. Arets, Francis E. Putz · 2018

Forest degradation accounts for ~70% of total carbon losses from tropical forests. Substantial emissions are from selective logging, a land‐use activity that decreases forest carbon density. To maintain carbon values in selectively logged …

LOGGING IMPACTS ON LIANA REGENERATION AND Open

S. Mesh, Denver T. Cayetano, Emili Requena, Esteban Álvarez‐Dávila, Elma Kay , et al. · 2017

Lianas play important ecological roles and are represented by large numbers of species in tropical forests, but to timber managers, they are a nuisance as they inhibit commercial tree recruitment and growth, increase the risk of injuries t…

Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above‐ground biomass in <span>A</span>mazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models Open

Michelle Johnson, David Galbraith, Manuel Gloor, Hannes De Deurwaerder, Matthieu Guimberteau , et al. · 2016

Understanding the processes that determine above‐ground biomass ( AGB ) in Amazonian forests is important for predicting the sensitivity of these ecosystems to environmental change and for designing and evaluating dynamic global vegetation…

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