ArticleScience advances2020
Persistent collapse of biomass in Amazonian forest edges following deforestation leads to unaccounted carbon losses.
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- Deforestation-focused policies do not reduce degradation in the Brazilian Amazon.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Fire and edge disturbances in the Amazon rainforest: impacts on animal-fruit and seed interactions.Oecologia · 2026Article
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- Quantifying the Spatial Footprint of Agriculture-Driven Edge Effects in a Global Deforestation Hotspot.Global change biology · 2026Article
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- Forest connectivity boosts carbon recovery in regenerating Atlantic Forests.Communications earth & environment · 2026Article
- A globally consistent negative effect of edge on aboveground forest biomass.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- A unifying framework for understanding how edge effects reshape the structure, composition and function of forests.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Human influence on Amazon's aboveground carbon dynamics intensified over the last decade.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Extreme Events Contributing to Tipping Elements and Tipping Points.Surveys in geophysics · 2025Review
- A large net carbon loss attributed to anthropogenic and natural disturbances in the Amazon Arc of Deforestation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Edge effects on tree architecture exacerbate biomass loss of fragmented Amazonian forests.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Intraspecific trait variability facilitates tree species persistence along riparian forest edges in Southern Amazonia.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Brazilian Amazon indigenous territories under deforestation pressure.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Deforestation is the primary driver of carbon losses in tropical forests, but it does not operate alone. Forest fragmentation, a resulting feature of the deforestation process, promotes indirect carbon losses induced by edge effect. This process is not implicitly considered by policies for reducing carbon emissions in the tropics. Here, we used a remote sensing approach to estimate carbon losses driven by edge effect in Amazonia over the 2001 to 2015 period. We found that carbon losses associated with edge effect (947 Tg C) corresponded to one-third of losses from deforestation (2592 Tg C). Despite a notable negative trend of 7 Tg C year
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