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    Deforestation and Social Impacts
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    Deforestation and Climate
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    Deforestation and the Carbon Cycle
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    Causes of Deforestation
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  • Jasinski, H., Morton, D, DeFries, R., Shimabukuro, Y., Anderson, L., and Hansen, M. (2005). Physical Landscape Correlates of the Expansion of Mechanized Agriculture in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Earth Interactions, 9, Paper 16, 1-18.
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    Deforestation Rates
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    NASA Deforestation Research
  • Asner, G., Broadbent, E., Oliveira, P., Keller, M., Knapp, D., and Silva, J. (2006). Condition and fate of logged forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103 (34), 12947-12950.
  • Asner, G., Nepstad, D., Cardinot, G., and Ray, D. (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.
  • Curran, L., and Trigg, S. (2006). Sustainability science from space: Quantifying forest disturbance and land-use dynamics in the Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103 (34), 12663-12664.
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  • Richey, J., Melack, J., Aufdenkampe, A., Ballester, V., and Hess, L. (2002). Outgassing from Amazonian rivers and wetlands as a large source of tropical CO2. Nature, 416, 617-620.
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    Sustaining Tropical Forests
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  • Nepstad, D., Stickler, C., and Almeida, O. (2006). Globalization of the Amazon Soy and Beef Industries: Opportunities for Conservation. 20 (6), 1595-1603.
  • Santilli, M., Moutinho, P., Schwartzman, S., Nepstad, D., Curran, L., and Nobre, C. (2005). Tropical deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol. Climatic Change, 71 (3), 267-276.

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