The Indicar Estados project was created with a view to filling this information gap regarding the impacts of priority policies for the prevention and control of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The initiative includes the creation of impact indicators for the priority actions undertaken by the State Plans for Prevention and Control of Deforestation of the states of Acre, Amazonas, Mato Grosso and Pará.
Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data?
Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data?
Positive aboveground biomass trends have been reported from old-growth forests across the Amazon basin and hypothesized to reflect a large-scale response to exterior forcing. The result could, however, be an artefact due to a sampling bias induced by the nature of...