Annual fluxes of carbon from deforestation and regrowth in the Brazilian Amazon

By Richard A. Houghton, D. Skole, C. Nobre, J. Hackler, K. Lawrence, W. Chomentowski. Nature, 2000

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Dynamics of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Tropical Regions (2003, background): “The role of the Amazonian forest as a carbon sink (in natural forests) and source (from land-use changes and fires) varies from year to year as a result of interactive effects between deforestation, abandonment of agricultural land reverting to forests, fires, and interannual climatic variability (7”
Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point (2008, background): “Approximately one-quarter of the previously forested lands in the Brazilian Amazon are in some stage of abandonment (Houghton et al. 2000), and most of these are degraded cattle pastures.”
Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation (2010, background): “Integrated in this environment, which we call “SimAmazonia-2,” a carbon bookkeeping model calculated emissions by overlaying annual deforestation on a map of forest carbon biomass (38) and assuming that carbon content is 50% of wood biomass (40) and that 85% of the carbon contained in trees is relea”
A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests (2011, positive): “We estimated gross areas of afforestation and deforestation (rather than net change in land use) based on data from Houghton et al. (46) , and Houghton (10, 47) .”
Cracking Brazil's Forest Code (2014, background): “We assumed that carbon content is 50% of woody biomass (17) and that 85% of the carbon contained in trees is released to the atmosphere after deforestation (18).”