[PDF] Top 20 Climate change, farm size and land use in Brazilian Legal Amazon

... production in BLA represents ...BLA farm could increase its agricultural production in ...inputs. Land use efficiency is much lower than technical ...agricultural land in ... See full document

... of land use and land cover is essential for studies addressing biodiversity, climate change and environmental modeling as well as for the design and monitoring of ... See full document

... Res and Tor, underwent little LCLU change in 2009 and no significant differences were measured between the years ...Res and Tor watersheds are neither close to roadways nor to urban ... See full document

... 2010 and August 2011 (table 1 and figure 2; electronic supplementary ...variables and methods were based on our research priorities, cost-effectiveness and the need to col- lect a large number ... See full document

... retailers and non- governmental organizations (NGOs), major soybean traders signed the SoyM, agreeing not to purchase soy grown on lands deforested after July 2006 in the Brazilian Amazon ... See full document

... on land resources is expected to increase as global population continues to climb and the world be- comes more affluent, swelling the demand for ...ing climate may exert additional pressures on ... See full document

... dance and structure of the populations, as well as on habitat and water quality characterization (Geist, ...scarcer and that studies projecting future sce- narios are even ...global climate ... See full document

... sociologists and even ...security, climate change, ecosystem ser- vices, food security, human health, land degradation and wa- ter security (Brevik et ...services, and management ... See full document

... observed and estimated sediment in the baseline period, which suggests that this model has a relatively good performance in the field outlet sediment ...RUSLE in this kind of study include the ... See full document

... climates and regions in New Zealand with the need for high- quality and complete ...Dairy Farm (in this case irrigation was also simulated in the model during ...Whanga in ... See full document

... functioning. In particular, soil den- itrifying communities represent an ideal subset of the soil mi- crobial community to target to assess changes in ecosystem functioning due to agricultural management ... See full document

... Neste estudo, realizamos um exercício de modelagem correlativa baseada em nicho climático para prever mudanças na distribuição de alguns anfíbios dos principais biomas brasileiros, ass[r] ... See full document

... like land-clearing fires (termed “I ”; see Table 1 for list of abbreviations), and “legacy fluxes” (“L”) from the readjustment of the carbon stocks to the new type of vegetation and/or type ... See full document

... ‘common and differentiated responsibility’ principle finds expression in general as well as in specific provisions of the ...lead in modifying longer-ter m trends in anthropogenic ... See full document

... Generally, climate change is expected to affect agriculture in Brazil negatively (CUNHA et ...agriculture in some parts of Brazil can be seriously affected by climate change, but ... See full document

... parts and equipment and the irms that build and manage wind farms in Brazil report several problems relating to infrastructure, such as poor roads, lack of transmission lines linking wind ... See full document

... data) in this study the selection of the optimum threshold value were done by visual inspection of each map generated using all the different c ...used in this study is by observing features in the ... See full document

... The Amazon is the largest reservoir of biodiversity in the world, home to more than 40,000 described vascular plant species (Feeley & Silman 2009), more than half of the described animal species ... See full document

... crisis in 2009 which led to many companies cutting down on ...website, in 2007 Germany put in place targets to reduce GHG emissions by 40% by 2020, by 55% by 2030 and up to 95% in 2050, ... See full document

... global and regional change on the water resources scenarios of the regional de- velopment were evolved for ...tent and plausible images of alternative futures that are rich enough to support the ... See full document