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ABSTRACT Although soybean production has been increasing in the state of Rondônia in the last decade, soybean planted area has been estimated indirectly using secondary datasets, which has limited understanding of its s...

ABSTRACT The agricultural dynamics of soybean expansion have long been recognized as a major driver of excessive land cover change on the southwestern border of the Brazilian Amazon. The hypothesis that the soybean marke...

Recruitment by fencing of semi-arid trees is a common woodland conservation strategy that may haveboth positive and negative implications. Domestic herbivores can act as efficient dispersal seed agentsbut they can also a...

The Chacoan peccary Catagonus wagneri is the rarest and most threatened of the three extant species of peccary. Its presence has been recorded in the northern Dry Chaco ecoregion, which spans northern Argentina, western ...

Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based platform for planetary-scale geospatial analysis that brings Google's massive computational capabilities to bear on a variety of high-impact societal issues including deforestation, d...

Subjects / keywords: Deforestation; Colombia; Cattle trade; Environmental aspects; Beef industry; Supply chain management

Subjects / keywords: Deforestation; Sustainable development

ABSTRACT This paper examines changes over time for a full generation of migrant settlers in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon (NEA). Data were collected from a 2014 household survey covering a subsample of households survey...