IPAM - Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia

 

2012

Amartya K. Saha; Karine S. Carvalho; Leonel da S. L. Sternberg; and Paulo Moutinho. Effect of leaf-cutting ant nests on plant growth in an oligotrophic Amazon rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 2012; 28:263-270. Doi:10.1017/S0266467412000107

Britaldo Soares-Filho; Rafaella Silvestrini; Daniel Nepstad; Paulo Brando; Hermann Rodrigues; Ane Alencar; Michael Coe; Charton Locks; Leticia Lima, and Letícia Hissa, et al. Forest fragmentation, climate change and understory fire regimes on the Amazonian landscapes of the Xingu headwaters. Landscape Ecology. 2012:1-14. ISSN: 0921-2973.

C. L. Mews et al. Efeito do substrato e de diferentes tratamentos pré-germinativos na germinação de sementes de Tento – Ormosia paraensis Ducke (Fabaceae). Revista Biotemas. 2012; 25 (Doi 10.5007/2175-7925.2012v25n1p11):11-16. ISSN: 2175-7925.

Felipe Nunes, Britaldo Soares-Filho, Renzo Giudice, Hermann Rodrigues, Maria Bowman, Rafaela Silvestrini and Elsa Mendoza. Economic benefits of forest conservation: assessing the potential rents from Brazil nut concessions in Madre de Dios, Peru, to channel REDD+ investments. Environmental Conservation, Available on CJO 2012 doi:10.1017/S0376892911000671. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract

Carvalho, Karine Santana; Balch, Jennifer  and  Moutinho, Paulo. Influências de Atta spp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) na recuperação da vegetação pós-fogo em floresta de transição amazônica. Acta Amaz. [online]. 2012, vol.42, n.1, pp. 81-88. ISSN 0044-5967.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0044-59672012000100010.

Ricardo Mello & Peter Hildebrand (2012): Modeling Effects of Climate Change Policies on Small Farmer Households in the Amazon Basin, Brazil, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 31:1-2, 59-79.

Marcia N. Macedo, Ruth S. DeFries, Douglas C. Morton, Claudia M. Stickler, Gillian L. Galford and Yosio E. Shimabukuro. Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s. PNAS. 2012 Jan 9; (10.1073).

Brando, P. M., Nepstad, D. C., Balch, J. K., Bolker, B., Christman, M. C., Coe, M., & Putz, F. E. (2012). Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density, and fire behavior. Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02533.x. onlinelibrary.wiley.com

 

2011

Daniel C. Nepstad; David G. McGrath, and Britaldo Soares-Filho. Systemic Conservation, REDD, and the Future of the Amazon Basin. Conservation Biology. 2011 Dec; 25(6):1113-1116. bit.ly/vIsenQ

Arun Agrawal; Daniel Nepstad, and Ashwini Chhatre. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degratation. Annual Review of Envionment and Resources . 2011; 36:273-296. http://bit.ly/sNQH4z

Ane Alencar; Gregory P. Asner; David Knapp, and Daniel Zarin. Temporal variability of forest fires in eastern Amazonia. Ecological Applications. 2011; 21(7):2397-2412. http://bit.ly/sJHLJS

Carvalho, K.S., A. Alencar, J. Balch, and P.Moutinho (2011). Leafcutter Ant Nests Inhibit Low-Intensity Fire Spread in the Understory of Transitional Forests at the Amazon's Forest-Savanna Boundary. Psyche, 2012: 1-7.

Lewis SL, Brando PM, Phillips OL, van der Heijden GMF, Nepstad D. The 2010 Amazon Drought. Science. 2011;331(6017):554. www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6017/554.abstract

DAVIDSON, ERIC A.; LEFEBVRE, P.; BRANDO, PAULO; RAY, David; TRUMBORE, Susan; Solórzano, Luis A.; Ferreira, Joice N.; Bustamante, Mercedes, M. C.; NEPSTAD, Daniel. Carbon Inputs and Water Uptake in Deep Soils of an Eastern Amazon Forest. Forest Science, v. 57, p. 51-58, 2011.

BALCH, JENNIFER K.; NEPSTAD, DANIEL C.; CURRAN, LISA M.; BRANDO, PAULO M.; PORTELA, OSVALDO; Guilherme, Paulo; Reuning-Scherer, Jonathan D.; de Carvalho Jr., Oswaldo. Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management, v. 261, p. 68-77, 2011.

Sakaguchi, Koichi; Zeng, Xubin; Christoffersen, Bradley J.; Restrepo-Coupe, Natalia; Saleska, Scott R.; BRANDO, PAULO M.. Natural and drought scenarios in an east central Amazon forest: Fidelity of the Community Land Model 3.5 with three biogeochemical models. Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 116, p. G01029, 2011.

2010

Brando, P.M., S.J. Goetz, A. Baccini, D.C. Nepstad, P.S.A. Beck, and M.C. Christman. 2010. Seasonal and interannual variability of climate and vegetation indices across the Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(33):14685-14690.

Martinelli, L.A., R. Naylor, P.M. Vitousek, P.Moutinho. Agriculture in Brazil: impacts, costs, and opportunities for a sustainable future. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2010, 2:431–438.

Gomes R., S. Bone, M. Cunha, A.C. Nahur, P.F. Moreira, L.C. L. Meneses-Filho, M. Voivodic, T. Bonfante, P. Moutinho. 2010. Exploring the Bottom-up Generation of REDD+ Policy by Forest-dependent Peoples. Policy Matters 17: 161-168.

Martinelli, L.A., P.Moutinho. 2010. Commodities for export still threaten rainforests in Brazil. Nature 467: 271.

Soares-Filho, B., P. Moutinho, D. Nepstad, A. Anderson, H. Rodrigues,R. Garcia, L. Dietzschb, F. Merry, M. Bowmanc, L. Hissaa, R. Silvestrini,and C. Maretti. 2010. Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0913048107

Ricketts, T.H., B. Soares-Filho, G. A. B. da Fonseca, D. Nepstad, A. Pfaff, A. Petsonk, A. Anderson, D. Boucher, A. Cattaneo, M. Conte, K. Creighton, L. Linden, C. Maretti, P. Moutinho, R. Ullman, R. Victurine. 2010. Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change. PLoS Biol 8(3): e1000331. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000331.

Asner, G. & Alencar, A. 2010. Drought impacts on the Amazon forest: the remote sensing perspective. New Phytologist, 187: 569–578. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010. 03310.x

S. Schwartzman, A. Alencar, H. Zarin, and A. P. S. Souza. 2010. Social Movements and Large-Scale Tropical Forest Protection on the Amazon Frontier: Conservation From Chaos. Journal of Environment and Development 19:274-299.

Balch, J. K. ; Nepstad, D. C. ; Brando, P. M. ; Alencar, A. 2010. Comment on "The Incidence of Fire in Amazonian Forests with Implications for REDD". Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 330, p. 1627

 

Stickler C.M., Nepstad, D.C., Coe, M.C., Rodrigues, H.O., McGrath, M.D., Davidson, E.A., Walker, W.S., Soares-Filho, B.S. 2009. The potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD: a critical review and case study. Global Change Biology 15:2803-2824.

Nepstad, D.C., Soares, B.S., Merry, F.D., Lima, A., Moutinho, P., Carter, J., Bowman, M.S., Cattaneo, Rodrigues, H., Schwartzman, S., McGrath, D.G., Stickler, C.M., Lubowski, R., Piris-Cabezas, P., Rivero, S., Alencar, A., Almeida, O., Stella, O. 2009. The end of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Science 326 (5958): 1350-1351.

Stickler, C.M., Nepstad, D.C., Coe, M.T., McGrath, D.G., Rodrigues, H.O., Davidson, E.A., Walker, W.S., Soares-Filho, B.S. 2009. The ecological costs and co-benefits of REDD: a critical review and case study from the Amazon region. Global Change Biology 15(12): 2803-2824.

Silveira, J.S, J. Barlow, A.V. Krusche, K. H. Orwin, J. K. Balch, and P. Moutinho. 2009. Effects of experimental fires on litter decomposition in a seasonally dry Amazonian Forest Journal of Tropical Ecology 25:657–663.

Moutinho, P., M. Cenamo, and P. Moreira. (2009). Reducing Carbon Emission by Slowing Deforestation: Initiatives in Brazil. In Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change. Charles Palmer (ed). Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics Series (series editor: Nick Hanley).

Gloor, M., O.L. Phillips, J.J. Lloyd, S.L. Lewis, Y. Malhi, T.R. Baker, G. López-Gonzalez, J. Peacock, S. Almeida, A.C. Alves de Oliveira, E. Alvarez, I. Amaral, L. Arroyo, G. Aymard, O. Bank, L. Blanc, D. Bonal, P. Brando, K.-J. Chao, J. Chave, N. Dávila, T. Erwin, J. Silva, A. DiFiore, T.R. Feldpausch, A. Freitas, R. Herrera, N. Higuchi, E. Honorio, E. Jiménez, T. Killeen, W. Laurance, C. Mendoza, A. Monteagudo, A. Andrade, D. Neill, D. Nepstad, P. Núñez Vargas, M.C. Peñuela, A. Peña Cruz, A Prieto, N. Pitnam, C. Quesada, R. Salomão, M. Silveira, M. Schwarz, J. Stropp, F. Ramírez, H. Ramírez, A. Rudas, H. ter Steege, N. Silva, A. Torres, J. Terborgh, R. Vásquez, and G. van der Heijden.  2009. Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data? Global Change Biology 15(10):2418–2430. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01891.x

Schwartzman, S.; Moutinho, P. Amazon Forest and Climate Change: compensating for deforestation Reduction. In Forests and Climate Change. Will Emission Trading Make a Difference? Ed. C. Streck and R. O’ Sullivan. Oxford University Press.

 

Nepstad, D.C., Stickler, C.M., Soares-Filho, B., and Merry, F. 2008. Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363(1498): 1737-1746.

Johns, T., Merry, F., Stickler, C., Nepstad, D., Laporte, N., and Goetz, S. 2008. A Three-Fund Approach to Incorporating Government, Public and Private Forest Stewards into a REDD Funding Mechanism. International Forestry Review 10(3): 458-464.

Balch, J.K., D.C. Nepstad, P.M. Brando, L.C. Curran, O. Portela, O. de Carvalho Jr., and P.  Lefebvre. 2008. Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of Southeastern Amazonia. Global Change Biology 14(10):2276-2287.

Brando, P.M., D.C. Nepstad, E.A. Davidson, S.E. Trumbore, D. Ray, P. Camargo. 2008. Drought effects on litterfall, wood production, and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: results of a throughfall reduction experiment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363:1839-1848.

Davidson, E.A., D.C. Nepstad, F.Y. Ishida, and P.M. Bando. 2008. Effects of an experimental drought and recovery on soil emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and nitric oxide in a moist tropical forest. Global Change Biology 14: 2582–2590.

Nepstad, D.C., and C.M. Stickler. 2008. Managing the tropical agriculture revolution. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 27(1-2):43-56.

Stickler, C.M., and Southworth, J. 2008. Application of multi-scale spatial and spectral analysis for predicting primate occurrence and habitat associations in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Remote Sensing and Environment 112: 2170-2186.

Almeida, O.T., K . Lorenzen And D . G. McGrath. 2008. Fishing agreements in the lower Amazon for gain and restraint. Fisheries Management and Ecology.

McGrath, D. A. Cardoso, O. T. Almeida, J. Pezzuti. 2008. Constructing a policy and institutional framework for an ecosystem-based approach to managing the lower Amazon floodplain. Environment, Development and Sustainability 10, p. 677-695

Stickler, C.M., D.C. Nepstad, B.S. Soares-Filho, H.O. Rodrigues, F. Merry, M.S. Bowman, W.S. Walker, J.M. Kellndorfer, O.T. Almeida. 2008. The opportunity costs of reducing carbon emissions in an Amazonian agroindustrial region: the Xingu River headwaters. A paper prepared for and presented at the 2008 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, 22-23 February. Berlin.

Stickler, C.M., D.C. Nepstad, O.T. Almeida, F. Merry, B.S. Soares-Filho, L. Dietzsch, H.O. Rodrigues, M.S. Bowman, and W.S. Walker. 2008. Compensating rural property owners for compliance with the Forest Code in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of the Xingu River headwaters region. Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Ecológica 18:18-22.

Stickler, C.M., J.M. Kellndorfer, W.S. Walker, B.S. Soares-Filho, H.O. Rodrigues, and L. Dietzsch. 2008. Forest carbon monitoring and landscape modeling in support of REDD: The Xingu River headwaters of the SE Amazon. Presented at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), 14th Session. 1-12 December. Poznan, Poland.

Stickler, C.M., and O.T. Almeida. 2008. Harnessing international finance to manage the Amazon agro-industrial explosion? The case of International Finance Corporation loans to Grupo Maggi. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 27(1-2): 57-86.

Stickler, C.M., and O.T. Almeida. 2008. Aproveitar o financiamento internacional para controlar a explosão agro-industrial na Amazônia? O estudo de caso do financiamento da Corporação Financeira Internacional para o Grupo Maggi. Cadernos NAEA 11(1):51-84.

Soares Filho, B.S., L. Dietzsch, P. Moutinho, A. Falieri, H. Rodrigues, E. Pinto, C.C. Maretti, K. Suassuna, C.A.deM. Scaramuzza, M. Lanna, and F.V. de Araújo. 2008. Reducing carbon emissions from deforestation: the role of ARPA’s protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazon. IPAM, Belém, Brazil.

Morehouse, K., T. Johns, J. Kaye, and M. Kaye. 2008. Carbon and nitrogen cycling immediately following bark beetle outbreaks in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 255:2698-2708.

McGrath, D.G., A. Cardoso, and O.T. Almeida. 2008. Evolución de un sistema de co-manejo de pesquerías en la llanura inundable de la baja Amazonia.  In El Manejo de las Pesquerías en Ríos Tropicales de Sudamérica El Manejo de las Pesquerías en Ríos Tropicales de Sudamérica, ed. D. Pinedo and C. Soria, 357-382. Instituto del Bien Común and IDRC, Lima, Peru.

Martelo, J, K. Lorenzen, M. Crossa, and D.G. McGrath. 2008. Habitat associations of exploited fish species in the Lower Amazon river–floodplain system. Freshwater Biology 53:2455–2464.

Almeida, O. T., D. McGrath, S. Rivero and K. Lorenzen. 2008.  Impacto del co-manejo pesquero sobre la pesca en la Amazonia brasileña: caracterización, análisis multiagentes e interacciones.  In El Manejo de las Pesquerías en Ríos Tropicales de Sudamérica El Manejo de las Pesquerías en Ríos Tropicales de Sudamérica, ed. D. Pinedo and C. Soria, 323-333. Instituto del Bien Común and IDRC, Lima, Peru.

 

McGrath, D., O. T. Almeida and F. D. Merry. 2007. The influence of community management agreements on household economic strategies: cattle grazing and fishing agreements on the lower Amazon floodplain. International Journal of the Commons 1(1): 101-121.

Schlamadinger B., N. Bird, T. Johns, S. Brown, J. Canadell, L. Ciccarese, M. Dutschke, J. Fiedler, A. Fischlin, P. Fearnside, C. Forner, A. Freibauer, P. Frumhoff, N. Hoehne, M.U.F. Kirschbaum, A. Labat, G. Marland, A. Michaelowa, L. Montanarella, P. Moutinho, D. Murdiyarso, N. Pena, K. Pingoud, Z. Rakonczay, E. Rametsteiner, J. Rock, M.J. Sanz, U.A. Schneider, A. Shvidenko, M. Skutsch, P. Smith, Z. Somogyi, E. Trines, M. Ward, Y. Yamagata. 2007. A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords. Environmental Science & Policy 10: 271-282

Vera-Diaz, M. del C., R.K. Kaufmann, D.C. Nepstad, and P. Schlesinger. 2007. An interdisciplinary model of soybean yield in the Amazon Basin: the climatic, edaphic, and economic determinants. Ecological Economics July.

Stickler, C., M. Coe, D. Nepstad, G. Fiske, and P. Lefebvre. 2007. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): Readiness for REDD - A Preliminary Global Assessment of Tropical Forested Land Suitability for Agriculture. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA.

Schwartzman, S., D. Nepstad, and P. Moutinho. 2007. Getting REDD Right. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia.

Nepstad, D., B. Soares-Filho, F. Merry, P. Moutinho, A. Rodrigues, S. Schwartzman, O. Almeida, and S. Rivero. 2007. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): The Costs and Benefits of Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Brazilian Amazon. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA.

Nepstad, D.C., O. Carvalho, Jr., J. Carter, A. Moita, V. Neu, and G. Cardinot. 2007. Manejo e Recuperação de Mata Ciliar em Regiões Florestais da Amazônia. (Management and recuperation of riparian zone forests of Amazon forest regions). Belém, Brazil: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), 68 p.

Nepstad, D.C., I.M. Tohver, D. Ray, P. Moutinho, and G. Cardinot. 2007. Mortality of large trees and lianas following experimental drought in an Amazon Forest. Ecology 88(9):2259-2269.

McGrath, D.G., O.T. Almeida, and F.D. Merry. 2007. The Influence of Community Management Agreements on Household Economic Strategies: Cattle Grazing and Fishing Agreements on the Lower Amazon Floodplain. International Journal of the Commons 1(1):67-87.

Mendoza, E., S. Perz, A. Chávez, G. Cullman, A, Duchelle, J. Luzar, M. Marsik, G. Alarcón, I.F. Brown, et al. 2007. The 'Knowledge Exchange Train': a model for capacity building for participatory governance in the south-western Amazon. Development in Practice 17(6):791-799.

Nepstad, D. 2007. Climate change and the forest. Special Report The American Prospect September.

Nepstad, D. 2007. The Amazon's Vicious Cycles. Drought and fire in the greenhouse. Ecological and climatic tipping points of the world's largest tropical rainforest and practical preventative measures. World Wildlife Fund. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia.

Kellndorfer, J., W. Walker, K. Kirsch, D. Nepstad, N. Laporte, C. Stickler, P. Lefebvre, M. Shimada, and A. Rosenqvist. 2007. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): New Eyes in the Sky - Cloud-Free Tropical Forest Monitoring for REDD with the Japanese Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS). A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA.

Belk, E.L., D. Markewitz, T.C. Rasmussen, E.J.M. Carvalho, D.C. Nepstad, and E.A. Davidson. 2007. Modeling the effects of throughfall reduction on soil water content in a Brazilian Oxisol under a moist tropical forest. Water Resources Research 43, W08432. DOI:10.1029/2006WR005493.

 

Nepstad, D.C., Stickler, C.M., and Almeida, O.T. 2006. Globalization of the Amazon soy and beef industries: opportunities for conservation. Conservation Biology 20(6): 1595-1603.

L. S. L. Sternberg, M.C. Pinzon, M. Z. Moreira, P. Moutinho, E. Rojas, E. A. Herre. 2006. Plants use macronutrients accumulated in leaf-cutting ant nests. Proceedings of the Royal Society.

Trumbore, S., E.S. da Costa, D.C. Nepstad, P.B. de Camargo, L.A. Martinelli, D. Ray, T. Restom, and W. Silver. 2006. Dynamics of fine root carbon in Amazonian tropical ecosystems and the contribution of roots to soil respiration. Global Change Biology 12:217-229.

Soares-Filho, B.S., D.C. Nepstad, L.M. Curran, G.C. Cerqueira1, R.A. Garcia, C.A. Ramos, E. Voll, A. McDonald, P. Lefebvre, and P. Schlesinger. 2006. Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin. Nature 440(7083):520-523.

Sheikh, P.A., F.D. Merry, and D.G. McGrath. 2006. Water buffalo and cattle ranching in the lower Amazon Basin: comparisons and conflicts. Agricultural Systems 87:313-330.

McGrath, D.G., and M.D.C.Vera Diaz. 2006. Soja na Amazônia: impactos ambientais e estratégias de mitigação. Ciência e Ambiente Janeiro.

Merry, F., G. Amacher, D. Macqueen, M. Guimares dos Santos, E. Lima, and D. Nepstad. 2006. Collective action without collective ownership: community associations and logging on the Amazon frontier. International Forestry Review 8:211-221.

Merry, F., G. Amacher, D. Nepstad, E. Lima, P. Lefebvre, and S. Bauch. 2006. Industrial development on logging frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon. International Journal of Sustainable Development 9(3):277-296.

Nepstad, D., C. Azevedo-Ramos, P. Moutinho, E. Lima, and F. Merry. 2006. Passos para uma política de gestão socioabmiental da indústria madereira da Amazônia. Ciencia & Ambiente 32:45-54.

Nepstad, D.C., S. Schwartzman, B. Bamberger, M. Santilli, D. Ray, P. Schlesinger, P. Lefebvre, A. Alencar, E. Prinz, G. Fiske, and A. Rolla. 2006. Inhibition of Amazon deforestation and fire by parks and indigenous reserves. Conservation Biology 20(1):65-73.

Lima, E., F. Merry, D. Nepstad, G. Amacher, C. Azevedo-Ramos, P. Lefebvre, and F. Resque, Jr. 2006. Searching for sustainability: forest policies, smallholders, and the Trans-Amazon highway. Environment 48(1):26-38.

Brando, P., D. Ray, D. Nepstad, G. Cardinot, L.M. Curran, and R. Oliveira. 2006. Effects of partial throughfall exclusion on the phenology of Coussarearacemosa (Rubiaceae) in an east-central Amazon rainforest. Oecologia 150:181-189.

Azevedo-Ramos, C., B.D. do Amaral, D.C. Nepstad, B. Soares Filho, and R. Nasi. 2006. Integrating ecosystem management, protected areas, and mammal conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecology and  Society 11(2):17. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss2/art17/

Alencar, A., D. Nepstad, and M del C. Vera Diaz. 2006. Forest understory fire in the Brazilian Amazon in ENSO and non-ENSO years: area burned and committed carbon emissions. Earth Interactions 10(6)1-17.

 

McGrath, D. and S.P. da Gama. 2005. Estudo de Áreas Comunitárias na Várzea Amazônica nos Municípios de Santarém-PA, Silves-AM e Tefé-AM. Chapter in J. H. Benatti, (Coord).. A Questão Fundiária e o Manejo dos Recursos Naturais da Várzea: Análise para Elaboração de Novos Modelos Jurídicos. Provárzea-Ibama. Manaus.

RAY, David; NEPSTAD, D C; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza. Micrometeorological and canopy controls of fire susceptibility in mature and disturbed forests of an east-central Amazon landscape. Ecological Application, v. 15, n. 5, p. 1664-1678, 2005.

SANTILLI, Márcio; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; SCHWARTZMAN, Stephan; NEPSTAD, D C; CURRAN, Lisa; NOBRE, Carlos. Tropical Deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol: an editorial essay. Climatic Change, v. 71, p. 267-276, 2005.

Moutinho, P. M. Santilli, S. Schwartzman, L. Rodrigues. 2005. Why ignore tropical deforestation? A proposal for including forest conservation in the Kyoto Protocol. Unasylva 222(56): 27-30.

Ray, D., D.C. Nepstad, and P. Moutinho. 2005. Micrometeorological and canopy controls of fire susceptibility in a forested Amazon landscape. Ecological Applications 15(5):1664-1678.

Oliveira, R.S., L. Bezerra, E.A. Davidson, F. Pinto, C.A. Klink, D.C. Nepstad, and A. Moreira. 2005. Deep root function in soil water dynamics in cerrado savannas of central Brazil. Functional Ecology 19:574-581.

Nepstad, D.C., C. Azevedo-Ramos, and E. Lima. 2005. Governing the Amazon timber industry for maximum social and environmental benefits. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods 15:183-192.

McGrath, D.G., O.T. Almeida, M. Crossa, A. Cardoso, and M. Cunha. 2005. Working towards community-based ecosystem management of the Lower Amazon floodplain. PLEC News and Views 6.

DeFries, R., G. Asner, F. Achard, C. Justice, N. Laporte, K. Price, C. Small, and J. Townshend. 2005. Monitoring tropical deforestation for emerging carbon markets. In Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change, ed. P. Mountinho and S. Schwartzman, 35-44. Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Belém, Pará, Brazil.

Almeida, O. and D. McGrath. 2005. Brazil: Varzea Project. Summary of "Varzea Project Socio Economic Assessment." In Freshwater and Poverty Reduction: Serving People, Saving Nature , ed. K. Schuyt, 24-30. WWF Living Waters Program, WWF International, Switzerland.

McGrath, D. G.; Peters, C. M; Bentes, A. J. M. 2004. Community forestry for small-scale furniture production in the Brazilian Amazon. Pages 200-220 in Zarin, D., Alavalapati, J. R. R.; Putz, F. E.; Schmink, M. (Org.). Working forests in the Neotropics: Conservation Through Sustainable Management? New York, pp. 200-220.

NEPSTAD, D C; LEFEBVRE, P; SILVA JR, U L; TOMASELLA, J; SCHLESINGER, P; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; RAY, D. Amazon drought and its implication for forest flammability and tree growth: a basin-wide analysis. Global Change Biology, v. 10, p. 1-14, 2004.

DAVIDSON, E; CARVALHO, Claudio J Reis de; VIEIRA, Ima C G; FIGUEIREDO, Ricardo de O; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; ISHIDA, Françoise Yoko; SANTOS, Maria Tereza Primo dos; GUERREIRO, José Benito; KALIF, Kamel; SABÁ, Renata Tuma. Nitrogen and Phosphorus Limitation of Biomass Growth in a Tropical Secondary Forest. Ecological Applications, v. 14, n. 6, p. 150-163, 2004.

CARVALHO, G; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; NEPSTAD, D C; MATTOS, L; SANTILLI, Marcio. An Amazon Perspective on the Forest-Climate Connection: Opportunity for Climate Mitigation, Conservation and Development?. Environment, development and sustainability, v. 6, p. 163-174, 2004.

Soares-Filho, B., A. Alencar, D. Nepstad, G. Cerqueira, M del C. Vera Diaz, S. Rivero, L. Solórzano, and E. Voll. 2004. Simulating the response of land-cover changes to road paving and governance along a major Amazon highway: the Santarém-Cuiabá corridor. Global Change Biology 10(5)745.

Restom, T.G., and D.C. Nepstad. 2004. Seedling growth dynamics of a deeply rooting liana in a secondary forest in eastern Amazonia. Forest Ecology and Management 190:109-118.

McGrath, D.G. 2004. Regatão and Caboclo: itinerant traders and smallholder resistance in the Brazilian Amazon. In Some Other Amazonians: Perspectives on Modern Amazonia. Ed. S. Nugent and M. Harris, 178-192. Brookings Institution Press, London.

McGrath, D.G., A. Cardoso, and E.P. Sá. 2004. Community fisheries and co-management on the lower Amazon floodplain. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for Fisheries , Vol. II. Ed. R. Welcome and T. Petr, 207-222. FAO and Mekong River Commission.

Merry, F.D., P.A. Sheikh, and D.G. McGrath. 2004.The role of informal contracts in the growth of small cattle herds on the floodplains of the Lower Amazon. Agriculture and Human Values 21(4)377-386.

Nepstad, D., C. Azevedo-Ramos, E. Lima, D. McGrath, C. Pereira, and F. Merry. 2004. Managing the Amazon timber industry. Conservation Biology 18(2):575-577.

Markewitz, D., E.A. Davidson, P. Moutinho, and D.C. Nepstad. 2004. Nutrient loss and redistribution after forest clearing on a highly weathered soil in Amazonia. Ecological Applications 14(4):S177-S199.

Keller, M., M.A. Silva-Dias, D.C. Nepstad, and M.O. Andreae. 2004. The Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia: Analyzing regional land use change effects. In Ecosystems and Land Use Change, ed. R.S. DeFries, G.P. Asner, and R.A. Houghton, 321-334. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.

Davidson, E.A, F.Y. Ishida, and D.C. Nepstad. 2004.Effects of an experimental drought on soil emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and nitric oxide in a moist tropical forest. Global Change Biology 10(5):718-730.

Almeida, O., K. Lorenzen, and D. McGrath. 2004. The commercial fishing sector in the regional economy of the Brazilian Amazon. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for Fisheries, Vol II. Ed. R. Welcome and T. Petr, 15-24. FAO and Mekong River Commission.

Alencar, A.A.C., L. Solórzano, and D.C. Nepstad. 2004. Modeling forest understory fires in an eastern Amazonian landscape. Ecological Applications 14(4):S139-S149.

Asner, G.P., D. Nepstad, G. Cardinot, and D. Ray. 2004. Drought stress and carbon uptake in an Amazon forest measured with spaceborne imaging spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101(16):6039-6044.

 

VERCHOT, L; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; DAVIDSON, E. Leaf-cutting and (Atta Sexdens) and nutrient cycling: deep soil inorganic nitrogen stocks, mineralization, and nitrification in Eastern Amazonia. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, v. 35, p. 1219-1222, 2003.

MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza. Leaf-cutting ant nest (Atta sexdens) influence on soil, root distribution and tree growth in a secondary forest of eastern.Amazonia. Ecology, v. 84, n. 5, p. 1265-1276, 2003.

Santilli, M., P. Moutinho, S. Schwartzman, D. Nepstad, L. Curran, and C. Nobre. 2003. Tropical deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol: a new proposal. Presented at COP-9. 1-12 December. Milan.

Moutinho, P., D.C. Nepstad, and E.A. Davidson. 2003. Influence of leaf-cutting ant nests on secondary forest growth and soil properties in Amazonia. Ecology 84(5)1265-1276.

Merry, F.D., G.S. Amacher, B. Pokorny, E. Lima, I. Scholz, D.C. Nepstad, and J.C. Zweede. 2003. Some doubts about timber concessions in the Brazilian national forests. Tropical Forestry Update 13:21.

Merry, F.D., G.S. Amacher, E. Lima, D.C. Nepstad, A. Veríssimo, and M.A. Cochrane. 2003. A Risky Forest Policy in the Amazon? Science 299:1843.

Castro, F., and D. McGrath. 2003. Moving towards sustainability in the local management of floodplain lake fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon. Human Organization 62(2):123-133.

Carvalho, G., P. Moutinho, D. Nepstad, L. Mattos, and M. Santilli. 2003. An Amazon Perspective on the Forest-Climate Connection: Opportunity for Climate Mitigation, Conservation and Development? Environment, Development and Sustainability 6(1-2):163-174.

Almeida, O., K. Lorenzen, and D. McGrath. 2003. Commercial fishing in the Brazilian Amazon: regional differentiation in fleet characteristics and efficiency. Fisheries Management and Ecology 10:109-115.

 

Nepstad, D., McGrath, D., Alencar, A., Barros, A., Carvalho, G., Santilli, M. and Vera Dias, C. 2002. Frontier Governance in Amazonia. Science 295: 629-630.

Brown, I.F. S. Brilhante, E. Mendoza, and I. Oliveira. 2002. The highway from Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil to Pacific ports: How to maximize the benefits and minimize the adverse impacts for sustainable development of southwestern Amazonia. Encuentro Internacional de Intergracion Regional - Bolívia, Brasil y Peru. Arequipa, Peru, 2 a 4 de setembro de 2001 Editora CEPEI (Centro Peruano de Estudios Internacionales) Lima. In Portuguese.

NEPSTAD, D C; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; DIAS-FILHO, M B; DAVIDSON, E; CARDINOT, G; MARKEWITZ, D; FIGUEIREDO, R; VIANNA, N; LEFEBVRE, P; RAY, D; SILVA., J. M. Cardoso da; STERNBERG, L; MOREIRA, M; GUERREIRO, J B; BARROS, L; ISHIDA, F Y; BELK, E; SCHWALBE, K. The effects of rainfall exclusion on canopy processes and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest. Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 107, n. 20, p. 8085.2002.

Sternberg, L., M. Moreira, and D. Nepstad. 2002. The lateral extent of water absorption by small trees in eastern Amazonia. Plant and Soil 238:151-158.

Soares-Filho, B., A. Alencar, D. Nepstad, G. Cerqueira, M. Diaz, S. Rivero, L. Solórzano, and E. Voll. 2002. Simulating the response of land-use and land-cover changes to governance along a major Amazon highway: the case of the Santarém-Cuiabá corridor. Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy People, ISEH/CI, Washington, D.C., 6-11 June.

Santilli, M., G. Carvalho, and D. Nepstad. 2002. O Brasil e as mudanças climáticas globais. In Meio Ambiente Brasil, Avanços e Obstáculos pós-Rio-92 , ed. A. Camargo, J.P.R. Capobianco, and J.A. Puppim de Oliveira. Sao Paulo: Estacao Liberdade Editora, 63-68.

Nepstad, D., P. Moutinho, M.B. Dias-Filho, E. Davidson, G. Cardino, D. Markewitz, R. Figueiredo, et al. 2002. The effect of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest. Journal of Geophysical Research 107(53):1-18.

Nepstad, D., D. McGrath, A. Alencar, A.C. Barros, G. Carvalho, M. Santilli, and M. del C. Vera Diaz. 2002. Issues in Amazonian Development. Science 295:1643-1644.

Nepstad, D. 2002. Review of Forest Fires: Behavior and Ecological Effects , ed. E.A. Johnson and K. Miyanishi. Academic Press, 2001. Nature 415:476.

Diaz, M del C. Vera, D. Nepstad, et al. 2002. Os Prejuizos Ocultos do Fogo na Amazonia (The Hidden Damages of Fire in the Amazon). Instituto de Pesquisa Económica Aplicada, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia, Woods Hole Research Center. www.ipam.org.br.

Cattânio, J.H., E.A. Davidson, D.C. Nepstad, L.V. Verchot, and I.L. Ackerman. 2002. Unexpected results of a pilot throughfall exclusion experiment on soil emissions of CO2, CH4, N2O, and NO in eastern Amazonia. Biol Fertil Soils 36:102-108.

Carvalho, G., D. Nepstad, D. McGrath, M. del C. Vera Diaz, M. Santilli, and A.C. Barros. 2002. Frontier expansion in the Amazon: Balancing development and sustainability. Environment 44:34-45.

Carvalho, G., D. McGrath, D. Nepstad, and M. del C. Vera Diaz. 2002. Brazil's Amazon Policy: Democratic Transition and Enduring Policy Patterns. In Currents of Change: Globalization, Democratization and Institutional Reform in Latin America . Ed. J. Behar. Stockholm: Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University.

Almeida, O., K. Lorenzen, and D. McGrath. 2002. Commercial fishing in the Brazilian Amazon: regional differentiation in fleet characteristics and efficiency. Fisheries Management and Ecology 9:1-7.

Alencar, A., D. Nepstad, and G. Carvalho. 2002. Timber industry follows the path of least resistance. Environment 44(3):42.

Nepstad, D. C., G. O. Carvalho, A. C. Barros, A. Alencar, J. P. Capobianco, J. Bishop, P. Moutinho, P. A. Lefebvre, U. L. Silva, and E. Prins. 2001. Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests. Forest Ecology and Management 154:395–407.

Nepstad, D.C., P. Moutinho, and R.S. Markewitz. 2001. The recovery of biomass, nutrient stocks, and deep-soil functions in secondary forests. In: The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin , ed. M.E. McClain, R.L. Victoria, and J.E. Richey, pp. 139-155. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nepstad, D., P. Moutinho, A. C. Barros, G. Carvalho, A. Alencar, J. Capobianco, and L. Solorzano. Science and the future of Amazon Policy: A response to Laurance et al. Science dEbates, June 2001.

Nepstad, D., G. Carvalho, A.C. Barros, A. Alencar, J.P. Capobianco, J. Bishop, P. Moutinho, P. Lefebvre, and U. Lopes da Silva, Jr. 2001. Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests. Forest Ecology and Management 5524:1-13.

Mendoza, E.R.H., I.F. Brown, D.C. Nepstad, and D. Selhorst. 2001. The impact of accidental fires in southwestern Amazonian agroecosystems and forests. A case study in Acre State, Brazil. 2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Castro, F., and D. McGrath. 2001. O manejo comunitario de lagos na Amazonia. Parcerias Estrategicas 12 (Setembro 2001): 112-126.

Carvalho, G.O., A.C. Barros, P. Moutinho, and D. Nepstad. 2001. Letter to the Editor: Sensitive development could protect Amazonia instead of destroying it. Nature. 409:131.

Castro, F., and D. McGrath. 2003. Moving towards sustainability in the local management of floodplain lake fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon. Human Organization 62(2):123-133.

Almeida, O., K. Lorenzen, and D. McGrath. 2003. Commercial fishing in the Brazilian Amazon: regional differentiation in fleet characteristics and efficiency. Fisheries Management and Ecology 10:109-115.

Almeida, O.; McGrath, D.; Ruffino, M. The Commercial Fisheries of the Lower Amazon: An Economic Analysis. Fisheries Management and Ecology. 2001. 8: 253-269

NEPSTAD, D C; CARVALHO, G; BARROS, A C; ALENCAR, A; CAPOBIANCO, J P; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; LEFEBVRE, P; BISHOP, J; SILVA JR, U L. Road paving, fire regime feedbacks and the future of Amazon Forest. Forest Ecology and Management, v. 5524, p. 1-13, 2001

KALIF, K; MALCHER, S A O; AZEVEDO-RAMOS, C; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza. The effect of logging on the ground-foraging ant community in eastern Amazônia. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, v. 36, n. 215, 2001.

NEPSTAD, D C; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; MARKEWITZ D. The recovery of biomass, nutrient stocks, and deep soil function in secondary forests. In: MCCLAIN, M; VICTORIA, R; RICHEY, J. (Org.). Biogeochemistry of the Amazon. New York, 2001, p. 139-155.

CARVALHO, G; BARROS, A C; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; NEPSTAD, D C. Sensitive development could protec Amazônia instead of destroying it. Nature, v. 409, p. 131. 2001.

Nepstad, D. C., A. Verı´ssimo, A. Alencar, C. A. Nobre, E. Lima, P. A. Lefebvre, P. Schlesinger, C. Potter, P. R. d. S. Moutinho, E. Mendoza, M. A. Cochrane, and V. Brooks. 1999b. Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire. Nature 398:505–508.

 

KALIF, K; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza. Comparison of three ant-sampling methods in a tropical forest in eastern Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, v. 16, p. 75-81, 2000.

JOLY, C A; AIDAR, M P M; KLINK, C A; MCGRATH, D G; MOREIRA, A G; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; NEPSTAD, D C; OLIVEIRA, A A; POTT, A; RODAL, M J N; SAMPAIO, E V S B. Evolution of the Brazilian phytogeography classification from the biodiversity conservation point of view. Ciência e Cultura, v. 51, n. 5/6, p. 331-348, 2000.

FOWLER, H.g.; DELABIE, J H C; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; AGUIAR, Amd. Ground ant assemblages (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) along stress gradients in Neotropical habitats. Naturalia, São Paulo, v. 22, p. 179-182, 2000.

FOWLER, H.g.; DELABIE, J H C; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza. Hypogaeic and epigaeic ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) assemblages of atlantic costal rainforest and dry mature and seconday Amazon forest in Brazil: continuums or communities. Tropical Ecology, v. 41, n. 1, p. 73-80, 2000.

MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; ALVES-COSTA, C P. Shell-size variation and aggregation behavior of Littoraria Flava (Gastropoda : Littorinidae) on a southeastern Brazilian shore. The Veliger, v. 43, p. 277-281, 2000.

WinklerPrins, A., and D. McGrath. 2000. Smallholder agriculture along the lower Amazon floodplain. PLEC News and Views, Australia, 16:34-42.

Uhl, C., and D. Nepstad. 2000. Amazonia at the millennium. Interciência 25(3): 159-164.

Schwartzman, S., D. Nepstad, and A. Moreira. 2000. Arguing Tropical Forest Conservation: People versus Parks. Conservation Biology. 14(5): 1370-1374.

Schwartzman, S., A. Moreira, and D. Nepstad. 2000. Rethinking conservation of tropical forests: perils in parks. Conservation Biology 14(5): 1350-1358. Doi: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.99329.x. online
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Nepstad, D., A. Veríssimo, P. Moutinho, and C. Nobre. 2000. O empobrecimento oculto da floresta Amazônica. (The hidden impoverishment of Amazon forests.) Ciencia Hoje 27(157): 70-73.

Moreira, M.Z., L.S.L. Sternberg, and D.C. Nepstad. 2000. Vertical patterns of soil water uptake by plants in a primary forest and an abandoned pasture in the eastern Amazon: an isotopic approach. Plant and Soil. 222: 95-107. DOI: 10.1023/A:1004773217189. www.springerlink.com

Nepstad, D. C., A. G. Moreira, and A. Alencar. 1999a. Flames in the rain forest: origins, impacts and alternatives to Amazonian fire. Chapter 5. The pilot program to conserve the Brazilian rain forest. World Bank, Brası´lia, Brazil.

NEPSTAD, D C; VERISSIMO, A; ALENCAR, A; NOBRE, C; LEFEBVRE, P; SCHLESINGER, P; POTTER, C; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; LIMA, E; COCHRANE, M; BROOKS, V. Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire. Nature, v. 398, p. 505-508, 1999.

Nepstad, D., A. Moreira, and A. Alencar. 1999. Flames in the Rainforest: Origins, Impacts and Alternatives to Amazon Fire. Pilot Program for the Conservation of the Rainforests of Brazil, World Bank. 140 pp.

Nepstad, D.C., A. Verissimo, A. Alencar, C. Nobre, E. Lima, P. Lefebvre, P. Schlesinger, C. Potter, P. Moutinho, E. Mendoza, M. Cochrane, and V. Brooks. 1999. Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire. Nature 398: 505-508.

 

Jipp, P., D. C. Nepstad, K. Cassel, and C. J. R. Carvalho. 1998. Deep soil moisture storage and transpiration in forests and pastures of seasonally-dry Amazonia. Climatic Change 39(2–3):395–412.

Serrão, E.A.S., D. Nepstad, and R. Walker. 1998. Desenvolvimento agropecuário e florestal de terra firme na Amazonia: sustentabilidade, criticalidade, e resiliencia. In: Amazonia: Meio ambiente e desenvolvimento agrícola. A. Homma (ed.). EMBRAPA. Belém, Brasil. Ch. 14:367-386.

Salomão, R.P., D.C. Nepstad & I. C. G. Vieira. 1998. Biomassa e estoque de carbono de florestas tropicais primárias e secundárias. In: Floresta Amazônica: Dinâmica, Regeneração e Manejo . C. Gascon e P. Moutinho (eds.) Manaus-AM. INPA. 99-120.

Potter, C., E. Davidson, S. Klooster, D. Nepstad, G. Negreiros, and V. Brooks. 1998. Regional application of an ecosystem production model for studies of biogeochemistry in Brazilian Amazonia. Global Change Biology 4: 315-333.

Negreiros, G.H., D. Nepstad, and E.A. Davidson. 1998. Profundidade mínima de enraizamento das florestas na Amazônia brasileira. In, Floresta Amazônica: Dinâmica, Regeração e Manejo. (C. Gascon and P. Moutinho, eds.) Manaus-AM. INPA.

Nepstad, D., A. Moreira, A. Veríssimo, P. Lefebvre, P. Schlesinger, C. Potter, C. Nobre, T. Krug, A. C. Barros, A. Alencar, and J. R. Pereira. 1998. Rainforests at the edge: forest fire prediction and prevention in the Brazilian Amazon. Conservation Biology 12(5).

Nepstad, D., C. Uhl, C. Pereira, and J. M. C. da Silva. 1998. Barreiras ao estabelecimento de árvores em pastos abandonados na Amazônia: banco de sementes, predação de sementes, herbivoria e seca. In: Floresta Amazônica: Dinâmica, Regeração e Manejo , C. Gascon and P. Moutinho, eds.

Jipp, P., D. Nepstad, K. Cassel, and C.R. de Carvalho. 1998. Deep soil moisture storage and transpiration in forests and pastures of seasonally-dry Amazônia. Climatic Change 39:395-412.

IPAM & WHRC. RisQue98: 1998. Mapas de risco de incêndios florestais e queimadas agrícolas na Amazônia Brasileira no segundo semestre de 1998. IPAM, Belém, Brasil.

 

Nepstad, D. C., C. Klink, C. Uhl, I. C. Vieira, P. A. Lefebvre, M. Pedlowski, E. Matricardi, G. Negreiros, I. F. Brown, E. Amaral, A. Homma and R. Walker. 1997. Land-use in Amazonia and the Cerrado of Brazil. Ciencia e Cultura 49 (1/2): 73-86.

Moreira, M., L. Sternberg, L. A. Martinelli, R. L. Victoria, E. M. Barbosa, L. C. M. Bonates and D. C. Nepstad. 1997. Contribution of transpiration to forest ambient vapor based on isotopic measurements. Global Change Biology 3: 439-450.

Jipp, P., D. C. Nepstad, K. Cassle, and C.R. de Carvalho. 1997. Deep soil moisture storage and transpiration in forests and pastures of seasonally-dry Amazonia. Climatic Change 39: 395-412.

 

COSTA, A Silveira; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza. Attracting parasitic flies (Diptera: Phoridae) to injured workers of the giant ant Dinoponera gigantea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News, v. 107, n. 2, p. 93-98, 1996

NEPSTAD, D C; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; UHL, C. F.; VIEIRA, I. C.; SILVA., J. M. Cardoso da. The ecological importance of forest remnants in an eastern Amazonian frontier landscape. In: SCHELHAS, John; GREENBERG, Russell. (Org.). In Forest Patches in Tropical Landscapes. Washington, 1996.

Serrao, E. A. S., D. Nepstad and R. Walker. 1996. Upland agricultural and forestry development in the Amazon: sustainability, criticality and resilience. Ecological Economics 18: 3-13.

Salomão, R., D. Nepstad & I. C. G. Vieira. 1996. Como a biomassa de florestas tropicais influi no efeito estufa? Ciência Hoje 21: 38-47.

Nepstad, D. C., C. Uhl, C. A. Pereira, and J. M. C. da Silva. 1996. A comparative study of tree establishment in abandoned pasture and mature forest of eastern Amazonia. Oikos 76, no. 1: 25-39.

Nepstad, D. C., P. R. Moutinho, C. Uhl, I. C. Vieira, and J. M. Cardosa da Silva. 1996. The ecological importance of forest remnants in an eastern Amazonian frontier landscape. In Forest Patches in Tropical Forest Landscapes. J. Schelhas, and R. Greenberg, eds. 7: 133-150.

Carvalheiro, K. de Oliveira, and D. C. Nepstad. 1996. Deep soil heterogeneity and fine root distribution in forests and pastures of eastern Amazonia. Plant and Soil 182: 279-285.

Alencar, A. A., I. C. Vieira, D. C. Nepstad, and P. A. Lefebvre. 1996. Analise multitemporal do use do solo e mudancas da cobertura vegetal em antiga area da Amazonia oriental. VIII Simposio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto.

 

Nepstad, D. C., P. Jipp, P. R. d. S. Moutinho, G. H. d. Negreiros, and S. Vieira. 1995. Forest recovery following pasture abandonment in Amazonia: canopy seasonality, fire resistance and ants. Pages 333–349 in D. Rapport, editor. Evaluating and monitoring the health of large-scale ecosystems. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

Vieira, I.C., D.C. Nepstad, and R. de Paiva Salomao. 1995. The flora of an Amazonian landscape after a century of agriculture: the Bragantina region, Brasil. Conservation Biology.

HENRIQUES, A.; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza. Etograma de Pachycondyla crassinoda Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de  Entomologia, v. 38, n. 4, p. 601-605, 1995.

NEPSTAD, D C; JIPP, P.; MOUTINHO, Paulo Roberto de Souza; NEGREIROS, G.; VIEIRA, S. The loss and recovery of forest health in seasonally-dry Amazonia: canopy seasonality, biomass and ants. In: RAPPORT, D J; GAUDET, C L; CALOW, P. (Org.). Evaluating and monitoring the health of large-scale ecosystems. 1995, v. 128.

Trumbore, S.E., E.A. Davidson, P.B. de Camargo, D.C. Nepstad, and L.A. Martinelli. 1995. Below-ground cycling of carbon in forests and pastures of eastern Amazonia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 9(4):515-28.

Salomão, R., N. Rosa, D. Nepstad & A. Bakk. 1995. Estrutura diametrica e breve caracterização ecológica - econômica de 108 espécies arbóreas da floresta Amazônica Brasileira - I. Interciencia 20: 20-29.

Murphy, P.G., A. Lugo, A. Murphy, and D. Nepstad. 1995. The dry forests of Puerto Rico's south coast. In Tropical Forests: Management and Ecology, A.E. Lugo and C. Lowe, eds. Springer Verlag.

Moutinho, P. R., D. C. Nepstad, K. Araújo, and C. Uhl. 1995. Formigas e floresta: Estudo para a recuperaçao de áreas de pastagem. Ciencia Hoje 15, no. 88: 59-60.

Davidson, E.A., D.C. Nepstad, C. Klink, and S.E. Trumbore. 1995. Pasture soils as carbon sink. Nature 376, no. 6540: 472-73.