Luiz Eduardo O C Aragão

Biographic Data

ID1361409
NAMELuiz Eduardo O C Aragão
GIVEN NAMESLuiz Eduardo O C
FAMILY NAMEAragão
SIGNATUREARAGÃO L E O C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Exeter
ORCID0000-0002-4134-6708
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT23
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Increased Amazon evapotranspiration since 1990 in a warming climate

    Open AccessLeonardo Laipelt, Ayan Santos Fleischmann et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    The Brazilian Amazon Forest is experiencing alterations in water fluxes driven by agriculture expansion and climate change, which affect land-atmosphere interactions and precipitation recycling. Evapotranspiration ( ET ) is central to understand these processes, as it regulates water transport across the Amazon. However, its long-term responses to ongoing climate change and human activities remain poorly understood. This study conducted a multi-s…

  • Climate benefits of Amazon secondary forests—recent advances and research needs

    Open AccessJessica C A Baker, M Adami et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    A quarter of the deforested Amazon has regrown as secondary tropical forest and yet the climatic importance of these complex regenerating landscapes is only beginning to be recognised. Advances in satellite remote-sensing have transformed our ability to detect and map changes in forest cover, while detailed ground-based measurements from permanent monitoring plots and eddy-covariance flux towers are providing new insights into the role of seconda…

  • Quantifying landscape fragmentation and forest carbon dynamics over 35 years in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

    Open AccessIgor S Broggio, Celso H L Silva et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The Brazilian Atlantic Forest (AF) covers 13% of Brazil but retains only 26% of its original forest area. Utilizing a Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA), we generated 30 m spatial resolution fragmentation maps for old-growth and secondary forests across the AF. We quantified landscape fragmentation patterns and carbon (C) dynamics over 35 years using MapBiomas data between the years 1985 and 2020. We found that from 1985 to 2020 the fo…

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

    Open AccessDavid M Lapola, Patricia Pinho et al.ARTICLEScience2023

    Approximately 2.5 × 10 6 square kilometers of the Amazon forest are currently degraded by fire, edge effects, timber extraction, and/or extreme drought, representing 38% of all remaining forests in the region. Carbon emissions from this degradation total up to 0.2 petagrams of carbon per year (Pg C year −1 ), which is equivalent to, if not greater than, the emissions from Amazon deforestation (0.06 to 0.21 Pg C year −1 ). Amazon forest degradatio…

  • Facing climate change across Latin America and the Caribbean

    Open AccessAlfonso Fernández, Matías Franchini et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2023

  • Protected areas are effective on curbing fires in the Amazon

    Open AccessAna Carolina Moreira Pessôa, Thiago F Morello R S et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2023

  • Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change

    Open AccessLuciana V Gatti, Luana S Basso et al.ARTICLENature2021

  • Long-term (1990–2019) monitoring of forest cover changes in the humid tropics

    Open AccessC Vancutsem, Franck Achard et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2021

    Three decades of satellite observations provide unprecedented information about forest change trajectories in the humid tropics.

  • A multi-data assessment of land use and land cover emissions from Brazil during 2000–2019

    Open AccessThais M Rosan, Kees Klein Goldewijk et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Brazil is currently the largest contributor of land use and land cover change (LULCC) carbon dioxide net emissions worldwide, representing 17%–29% of the global total. There is, however, a lack of agreement among different methodologies on the magnitude and trends in LULCC emissions and their geographic distribution. Here we perform an evaluation of LULCC datasets for Brazil, including those used in the annual global carbon budget (GCB), and nati…

  • Spatio-temporal variation in dry season determines the Amazonian fire calendar

    Open AccessNathália S Carvalho, Liana O Anderson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Fire is one of the main anthropogenic drivers that threatens the Amazon. Despite the clear link between rainfall and fire, the spatial and temporal relationship between these variables is still poorly understood in the Amazon. Here, we stratified the Amazon basin according to the dry season onset/end and investigated its relationship with the spatio-temporal variation of fire. We used monthly time series of active fires from 2003 to 2019 to chara…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Mike O’Sullivan et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2020

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate – the “global carbon budget” – is important tobetter understand the global carbon cycle, support the development ofclimate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe andsynthesize data sets and methodology to quantify the five major componentsof the global carbon…

  • Geometry by Design: Contribution of Lidar to the Understanding of Settlement Patterns of the Mound Villages in SW Amazonia

    Open AccessJ Iriarte, Mark Robinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Computer Applications…2020

    Recent research has shown that the entire southern rim of Amazonia was inhabited by earth-building societies involving landscape engineering, landscape domestication and likely low-density urbanism during the Late Holocene. However, the scale, timing, and intensity of human settlement in this region remain unknown due to the dearth of archaeological work and the logistical difficulties associated with research in tropical forest environments. A c…

  • Estimating the multi-decadal carbon deficit of burned Amazonian forests

    Open AccessCamila V J Silva, Luiz Eduardo O C Aragão et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Wildfires in humid tropical forests have become more common in recent years, increasing the rates of tree mortality in forests that have not co-evolved with fire. Estimating carbon emissions from these wildfires is complex. Current approaches rely on estimates of committed emissions based on static emission factors through time and space, yet these emissions cannot be assigned to specific years, and thus are not comparable with other temporally-e…

  • Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires

    Open AccessAdrián Cardíl, Sergio De‐miguel et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Tropical forests are of global importance even though they only cover around 10% of the Earth's land surface. They store large amounts of carbon and host between one-half and two-thirds of the world's species (Lewis 2006). Small changes in the tropical moist forest—the most biodiverse biome within the tropical forests—may lead to global impacts on climate dynamics and warming, water cycles, and the loss of biodiversity. If the current rates of de…

  • St Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions

    Open AccessLuiz Eduardo O C Aragão, Liana O Anderson et al.ARTICLENature Communications2018

    Tropical carbon emissions are largely derived from direct forest clearing processes. Yet, emissions from drought-induced forest fires are, usually, not included in national-level carbon emission inventories. Here we examine Brazilian Amazon drought impacts on fire incidence and associated forest fire carbon emissions over the period 2003–2015. We show that despite a 76% decline in deforestation rates over the past 13 years, fire incidence increas…

  • Land availability for sugarcane derived jet-biofuels in São Paulo—Brazil

    Open AccessDenise Zanatta Martini, Luiz Eduardo O C Aragão et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2018References: 19

  • Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

    Open AccessJos Barlow, Gareth D Lennox et al.ARTICLENature2016

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    Open AccessRoel Brienen, R J W Brienen et al.ARTICLENature2015

  • Potential land availability for agricultural expansion in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessDenise Zanatta Martini, Maurício Alves Moreira et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2015Cited by: 4References: 27

  • Large-scale heterogeneity of Amazonian phenology revealed from 26-year long AVHRR/NDVI time-series

    Open AccessFabrício Brito Silva, Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Depiction of phenological cycles in tropical forests is critical for an understanding of seasonal patterns in carbon and water fluxes as well as the responses of vegetation to climate variations. However, the detection of clear spatially explicit phenological patterns across Amazonia has proven difficult using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). In this work, we propose an alternative approach based on a 26-year t…

  • Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

    Open AccessOliver L Phillips, Luiz Eduardo O C Aragão et al.ARTICLEScience2009

    Amazon forests are a key but poorly understood component of the global carbon cycle. If, as anticipated, they dry this century, they might accelerate climate change through carbon losses and changed surface energy balances. We used records from multiple long-term monitoring plots across Amazonia to assess forest responses to the intense 2005 drought, a possible analog of future events. Affected forest lost biomass, reversing a large long-term car…

  • Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

    Open AccessY Malhi, Luiz Eduardo O C Aragão et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2009

    We examine the evidence for the possibility that 21st-century climate change may cause a large-scale “dieback” or degradation of Amazonian rainforest. We employ a new framework for evaluating the rainfall regime of tropical forests and from this deduce precipitation-based boundaries for current forest viability. We then examine climate simulations by 19 global climate models (GCMs) in this context and find that most tend to underestimate current …

  • Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice - by Carruthers, David V

    Open AccessLuiz Eduardo O C AragãoARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2009