Cassiano Gustavo Messias

Aug 20, 2024 | nature.com | Cassiano Gustavo Messias |Fabio Alves |Mariane S. Reis |Amanda P. Belluzzo |Camila B. Quadros |Diego Silva | +8 more

AbstractThe Brazilian Amazon Satellite Monitoring Program (PRODES Amazonia) tracks forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon but excludes about 6.6% ( ~ 280,000 km²) of non-forest vegetation (NF). Here we developed the PRODES NF system to address this gap by adapting the well-established methodology of PRODES Amazonia.

Aug 23, 2023 | nature.com | Luciana V. Gatti |A. Scott Denning |Luana S. Basso |John Miller |Raoni Rajão |Liana Anderson | +6 more

AbstractThe Amazon forest carbon sink is declining, mainly as a result of land-use and climate change1,2,3,4. Here we investigate how changes in law enforcement of environmental protection policies may have affected the Amazonian carbon balance between 2010 and 2018 compared with 2019 and 2020, based on atmospheric CO2 vertical profiles5,6, deforestation7 and fire data8, as well as infraction notices related to illegal deforestation9.