Timber is a strategic resource in Amazon frontier development, providing 250,000 jobs and up to one-fourth of the region’s gross domestic product (Uhl et al. 1997; Veríssimo et al. 2002a, 2002b). Since the 1980s, timber sales have replaced government subsidies as...

Understanding the dynamics of native forest loss and gain is critical for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services, especially in regions experiencing intense forest transformations. We quantified native forest cover dynamics on an annual basis from 1990 to...