Scientific Articles

Check below our published scientific articles:

2023

Lapola, D. M. et al., 2023. The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation. Science, 379 (6630)

2022

Pinho, P. F. et al., 2022. Climate change affects us in the tropics: local perspectives on ecosystem services and well-being sensitivity in Southeast Brazil. Regional Environmental Change, 22 (89)
Menezes, J. et al., 2022. Changes in leaf functional traits with leaf age: when do leaves decrease their photosynthetic capacity in Amazonian trees? Tree Physiology, 42 (5): 922-938
Torres, R. R. et al., 2022. Projected impacts of 1.5 and 2°C global warming on temperature and precipitation patterns in South America. International Journal of Climatology, 42 (3): 1597 - 1611

2021

Sampaio, G. et al., 2021. CO₂ physiological effect can cause rainfall decrease as strong as large-scale deforestation in the Amazon. Biogeosciences, 18 (8): 2511–2525
Scarano, F. R. et al., 2021. Para além dos Objetivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável: desafios para o Brasil. Revista Bio Diverso, 1 (1): 3 –21

2020

Cordeiro, A. L. et al., 2020. Fine‐root dynamics vary with soil depth and precipitation in a low‐nutrient tropical forest in the Central Amazonia. Journal of Plant-Environment Interactions.
Pires, A. P.; Padgurschi, M. C. G. et al., 2020. Ecosystem services or nature’s contributions? Reasons behind different interpretations in Latin America. Ecosystem Services.
Siqueira-Gay, J. et al., 2020. Pathways to positive scenarios for the Amazon forest in Pará state, Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 20: 1676-0611.

2019

Canova, M. A. et al., 2019. Different ecosystem services, same (dis)satisfaction with compensation: a critical comparison between farmers’ perception in Scotland and Brazil. Ecosystem Services, 35:164-172.
Lapola, D. M. et al., 2019. Heat stress vulnerability and risk at the (super) local scale in six Brazilian capitals. Climatic Change, 154:477-492.
Fleischer, K. et al., 2019. Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition. Nature Geoscience, 12:736–741.
Pereira, I. S. et al., 2019. Performance of Laser-Based Electronic Devices for Structural Analysis of Amazonian Terra-Firme Forests. Remote Sens, 11:510.
Lapola, D. M. et al., 2019. A climate‐change vulnerability and adaptation assessment for Brazil's protected areas. Conservation Biology, Accepted Author Manuscript, doi:10.1111/cobi.13405.

2018

Lapola, D. M. et al., 2018. Living with the risk of the Amazon forest dieback while research gaps limit resilience-building action. PNAS, 115:46:11671-11679.
Lapola, D. M. 2018. Bytes and boots to understand the future of the Amazon forest. New Phytologist, 219:845-847.
Barton, D. N. et al., 2018. (Dis) integrated valuation assessing the information gaps in ecosystem service appraisals for governance support. Ecosystem Services, 29:529-541.
Dunford, R. et al., 2018. Integrating methods for ecosystem service assessment: experiences from real world situations. Ecosystem Services, 29:499-514.
Zulian, G. et al., 2018. Practical application of spatial ecosystem service models to aid decision support. Ecosystem Services, 29:465-480.
Dick, J. et al., 2018. Stakeholders’ perspectives on the operationalisation of the ecosystem service concept: results from 27 case studies. Ecosystem Services, 29:552-565.

2017

Saarikoski, H. et al., 2017. Institutional challenges in putting ecosystem service knowledge in practice. Ecosystem Services, 29:579-598.
Englund, O. et al., 2017. A new high-resolution nationwide aboveground carbon map for Brazil. Geo: Geography and Environment, 4:E00045.

2016

Norby, R. J. et al., 2016. Model-data synthesis for the next generation of forest free-air CO 2 enrichment (FACE) experiments. New Phytologist: 209:17-28.
Silva, R. A. et al., 2016. Operationalizing payments for ecosystem services in Brazil’s sugarcane belt: how do stakeholder opinions match with successful cases in Latin America? Ecosystem Services, 22:128-138.
Di Giulio, G. M. et al., 2016. Plano nacional de adaptação à mudança do clima: possibilidades e desafios. Jornal Da Ciência (SBPC), 10.Out.2016.
Darela-Filho, J. P. D. et al., 2016. Socio-climatic hotspots in Brazil: how do changes driven by the new set of IPCC climatic projections affect their relevance for policy?. Climatic Change, 1:1-13.
EU Bioenergy Policies at the crossroad (2016), Openness Brief, Nº 04.
Hofhansl, F. Andersen et al., 2016. Amazon forest ecosystem responses to elevated atmospheric CO2 and alterations in nutrient availability: filling the gaps with model-experiment integration. Front. Earth Sci. 4:19, doi:10.3389/feart.2016.00019.

2015

Ometto, J. P. H. B. et al., 2015. Uncertainties in greenhouse gas inventories expanding our perspective. Ed. Dordrecht, Springer International Publishing, 95-110.

2014

Jonas, M. et al., 2014. Sustaining ecosystem services: overcoming the dilemma posed by local actions and planetary boundaries. Earth’s Future, 2:407-420.
Lapola, D. M.; Norby, R. J., 2014. AmazonFACE: Assessing the effects of increased atmospheric CO2 on the ecology and resilience of the Amazon forest – Science Plan & Implementation Strategy. Brasília: Ministério de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, 54p.
Dalla-Nora, E. L. et al., 2014. Why have land use change models for the Amazon failed to capture the amount of deforestation over the last decade? Land Use Policy, 39:403-411.
Ometto, J. P. H. B. et al., 2014. Amazon forest biomass density maps: tackling the uncertainty in carbon emission estimates. Climatic Change, 124:545-560.
Lapola, D. M. et al., 2014. Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system. Nature Climate Change, 4:27-35.

2012

Torres, R. R. et al., 2012. Socio-climatic hotspots in Brazil. Climatic Change, 115:597-609.
Aguiar, A. P. D. et al., 2012. Modeling the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of deforestation-driven carbon emissions: the INPE-EM framework applied to the Brazilian Amazon. Global Change Biology, 18:3346-3366.

2011

Lapola, D. M. et al., 2011. Impacts of Climate Change and the End of Deforestation on Land Use in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Earth Interactions, 15:1-29.
Alcamo, J. et al., 2011. Evaluation of an integrated land use change model including a scenario analysis of land use change for continental Africa. Environmental Modelling & Software, 26:1017-1027.
Schaldach, R. et al., 2011. An integrated approach to modelling land-use change on continental and global scales. Environmental Modelling & Software, 26:1041-1051.

2010

Lapola, D. M. et al., 2010. Indirect land-use changes can overcome carbon savings from biofuels in Brazil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107:3388-3393.
aus der Beek, T. et al., 2010. Modelling historical and current irrigation water demand on the continental scale: Europe. Advances in Geosciences, 27:79-85.

2009

Lapola, D. M.; Oyama, A. D.; Nobre, C. A., 2009. Exploring the range of climate-biome projections for tropical South America: The role of CO2 fertilization and seasonality. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23:GB3003.
Lapola, D. M.; Joerg, A. P.; Bondeau, A., 2009. Modeling the land requirements and potential productivity of sugarcane and jatropha in Brazil and India using the LPJmL dynamic global vegetation model. Biomass & Bioenergy, 33:1087-1095.
Schaldach, R.; Flörke M., Lapola, D. M., 2009. A model-based assessment of the potential role of irrigated cropland for biogas production in Europe. Advances in Geosciences, 21:85-90.

2008

Lapola, D. M. et al., 2008. A new world natural vegetation map for global changes studies. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 80:397-408.
Lapola, D. M., 2008. Questioning the implementation of habitat corridors: a case study in interior São Paulo using ants as bioindicators. Brazilian Journal of Biology, 68:11-20.
Cardoso, M. F. et al., 2008. Long-term potential for fires in estimates of the occurrence of savannas in the tropics. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 17:222-235.

2005

Lapola, D. M. et al., 2005. Ant-tended Hemiptera in Amazonian myrmecophytes: patterns of abundance and implications for mutualism function. Sociobiology, 46:433-442.

2004

Bruna, E. M.; Lapola, D. M.; Vasconcelos, H. L., 2004. Interspecific variation in the defensive reponses of obligate plant-ants: experimental tests and consequences for herbivory. Oecologia, 138:558-565.

2003

Bruna, E. M.; Lapola, D. M.; Vasconcelos, H. L., 2003. Contrasting responses to induction cues by ants inhabiting Maieta guianensis (Melastomataceae). Biotropica, 35:295-300.
Lapola, D. M.; Antonialli-Junior W. F.; Giannotti, E., 2003. Arquitetura de ninhos da formiga Neotropical Ectatomma brunneum (Formicidae: Ponerinae) em ambientes alterados. Revista Brasileira de Zoociências, 5:177-188.
Fernandes, F. M. et al., 2003. Curva de sobrevivência e estimativa de entropia em Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Iheringia (Zoologia), 93:319-324.