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| D NepstadSummaryAffiliation: Woods Hole Research Center Country: USA Publications
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Environment. Frontier governance in AmazoniaD Nepstad
Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC, Woods Hole, MA 02543-0296, USA
Science 295:629-31. 2002
Smallholders, the Amazon's new conservationistsMarina T Campos
Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
Conserv Biol 20:1553-6. 2006
Globalization of the Amazon soy and beef industries: opportunities for conservationDaniel C Nepstad
Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
Conserv Biol 20:1595-603. 2006....
Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping pointDaniel C Nepstad
Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:1737-46. 2008..Protected areas have been established in the pathway of expanding agricultural frontiers. Finally, emerging carbon market incentives for reductions in deforestation could support these trends...
Mortality of large trees and lianas following experimental drought in an Amazon forestDaniel C Nepstad
Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, Massachusetts 02540 1644, USA
Ecology 88:2259-69. 2007..4 times more dead biomass than the control plot. The dramatic mortality response suggests significant, adverse impacts on the global carbon cycle if climatic changes follow current trends...
Inhibition of Amazon deforestation and fire by parks and indigenous landsD Nepstad
The Woods Hole Research Center, P O Box 296, 13 Church Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Conserv Biol 20:65-73. 2006..This success will depend on a broad base of political support...
Environment. Tropical forests and climate policyRaymond E Gullison
Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4
Science 316:985-6. 2007
Hydraulic redistribution in three Amazonian treesRafael S Oliveira
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Oecologia 145:354-63. 2005..This has broad implications for understanding and modeling ecosystem process and forest function in this important biome...
A risky forest policy in the Amazon?Frank D Merry
Science 299:1843; author reply 1843. 2003
Drought effects on litterfall, wood production and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: results of a throughfall reduction experimentPaulo M Brando
Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia IPAM, Avenida Rui Barbosa, 136, 68005 080 Santarém, Para, Brazil
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:1839-48. 2008..Results of this unreplicated, long-term, large-scale ecosystem manipulation experiment demonstrate that multi-year severe drought can substantially reduce Amazon forest carbon stocks...
