Land-Cover/Land-Use Change and Carbon Dynamics in an Expanding Frontier in Western Amazonia: Acre, Brazil
Project Start Date
01/01/2000
Project End Date
01/01/2003
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| Person Name | Person role on project | Affiliation |
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| Foster Brown | Principal Investigator | Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States |
Abstract
In western Amazonia, secondary forests are not important carbon sinks. • Official estimates of logging in Acre State differ 20-fold. Approximately 90% was illegal in the late 1990s. • Estimates of area deforested in Acre State by different institutions vary by 20 to 40+%. Consequently, uncertainty in rates of deforestation, a critical factor in carbon budgets, is probably greater than 40%. • Carbon stocks in forests of eastern Acre are comparable to those of central Amazonia. • Estimates of hot points (burning) differ 20-fold between those based on NOAA/AVHRR and those based on GOES-8. • Deforestation in Extractive Reserves tends to concentrate in specific areas that may generate conflicting land-uses in the coming decade.
Project Documents
Project Documents
| Year | Type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation | Land-cover Land-Use Changes in the Tri-Frontier Area of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru: Implications for Sustainable Land Use in Southwestern Amazonia |
| 2004 | Significant Results | Significant Results of LBA-MAP (Madre de Dios-Peru, Acre-Brazil, Pando, Bolivia) (Significant Results) |
| 2003 | Significant Results | Significant Results of LBA-MAP (Madre de Dios-Peru, Acre-Brazil, Pando, Bolivia) |
| 2001 | Annual Progress Report | Estrada de Rio Branco, Acre, Brasil aos Portos do Pacífico: Como maximizar os benefícios e minimizar os prejuízos para o desenvolvimento sustentável da Amazônia Sul-Ocidental |
| 2000 | Significant Results | Land-Cover/Land-Use Change and Carbon Dynamics in an Expanding Frontier in Western Amazonia: Acre, Brazil |
| 1999 | Annual Progress Report | Current Deforestation (1999) |