Carlos Moreira De Souza Júnior

Biographic Data

ID1617987
NAMECarlos Moreira De Souza Júnior
GIVEN NAMESCarlos Moreira De Souza
FAMILY NAMEJúnior
SIGNATUREJÚNIOR C M S
AFFILIATIONSImazon
ORCID0000-0002-0205-6134
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Open letter

    Open AccessSuelma Ribeiro Silva, Alexandre Christófaro Silva et al.ARTICLEPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET2026

    This Open Letter highlights peatlands as critical yet overlooked ecosystems in Brazil's climate and biodiversity policies. By translating scientific evidence into clear, actionable priorities for policymakers, it supports more accurate climate reporting, effective mitigation strategies, and improved land-use governance. The letter emphasizes the societal benefits of peatland protection, including reduced greenhouse gas emissions, water security, …

  • Mapping the limits to timber traceability at origin

    Open AccessCaroline Sartorato Silva França, U Martin Persson et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

  • The Role of The State in Diversifying and Expanding the Brazilian Energy Matrix

    Open AccessPaulo Roberto Ribeiro Morais, Carlos Moreira De Souza Júnior et al.ARTICLESociedade & natureza2024

    Despite having an essentially renewable electricity matrix, the dependence on hydropower, in the current climate risk scenario and the associated environmental and social impacts, point to the need to diversify energy generation in Brazil. To this end, state action is fundamental for designing and implementing public policies for the country's energy matrix. However, this diversification does not occur at the desired speed and scale. Thus, this a…

  • O Papel do Estado na Diversificação e Ampliação da matriz Elétrica Brasileira

    Open AccessPaulo Roberto Ribeiro Morais, Carlos Moreira De Souza Júnior et al.ARTICLESociedade & natureza2024

    Apesar de apresentar uma matriz elétrica essencialmente renovável, a dependência do recurso hídrico, no atual cenário de risco climático e os impactos sociais e ambientais associados, aponta para a necessidade da diversificação da geração de energia no Brasil. Para isso, a ação do Estado é fundamental para o desenho e implementação de políticas públicas para matriz energética do país. Contudo, observamos que essa diversificação não ocorre com a v…

  • Forecasting deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon to prioritize conservation efforts

    Open AccessRodolfo Jaffé, Sâmia Nunes et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    As Amazon deforestation rates reach the highest levels observed in the past decade, it is extremely important to direct conservation efforts to regions containing preserved forests with a high risk of deforestation. This requires forecasting deforestation, a complex endeavor due to the interplay of multiple socioeconomic, political, and environmental factors across different spatial and temporal scales. Here we couple high-resolution land-cover m…

  • Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine

    Open AccessCarlos Moreira De Souza Júnior, Julia Z Shimbo et al.ARTICLERemote Sensing2020

    Brazil has a monitoring system to track annual forest conversion in the Amazon and most recently to monitor the Cerrado biome. However, there is still a gap of annual land use and land cover (LULC) information in all Brazilian biomes in the country. Existing countrywide efforts to map land use and land cover lack regularly updates and high spatial resolution time-series data to better understand historical land use and land cover dynamics, and th…

  • Unmasking secondary vegetation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessSâmia Nunes, Luís Oliveira et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Secondary vegetation (SV) from land abandonment is a common transition phase between agricultural uses following tropical deforestation. The impact of SV on carbon sequestration and habitat fragmentation across tropical forest frontiers therefore depends on SV dynamics and demographics. Here, we used time series of annual MapBiomas land cover data to generate the first estimates of SV extent, age, and net carbon uptake in the Brazilian Amazon bet…

  • Uncertainties in assessing the extent and legal compliance status of riparian forests in the eastern Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessSâmia Nunes, Jos Barlow et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2019Cited by: 2References: 16

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

    Open AccessJos Barlow, Gareth D Lennox et al.ARTICLENature2016

  • Compensating for past deforestation

    Open AccessSâmia Nunes, Toby Gardner et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2016Cited by: 8References: 8

  • Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon

    Open AccessChristopher Barber, Christopher P Barber et al.ARTICLEBiological Conservation2014

  • Spontaneous Colonization and Forest Fragmentation in the Central Amazon Basin

    Eugênio Arima, Eugenio Y Arima et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2013Cited by: 1References: 36

    This article addresses the emergence of road networks and forest fragmentation in Central Amazônia, which has been impacted by both spontaneous and planned settlement. The first objective of the article is to broaden the discussion of fragmentation by addressing social processes that generate it through the construction of roads. Roads impact land cover change worldwide, and their role in Amazonian deforestation is known. The article also seeks t…

  • The Amazon basin in transition

    Open AccessEric A Davidson, Alessandro Araùjo et al.ARTICLENature2012

  • Carbon emissions from deforestation and forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessIzaya Numata, Mark A Cochrane et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2011

    Forest-fragmentation-related edge effects are one of the major causes of forest degradation in Amazonia and their spatio-temporal dynamics are highly influenced by annual deforestation patterns. Rapid biomass collapse due to edge effects in forest fragments has been reported in the Brazilian Amazon; however the collective impacts of this process on Amazonian carbon fluxes are poorly understood. We estimated biomass loss and carbon emissions from …

  • Achieving forest carbon information with higher certainty

    Open AccessDavid J Baker, G P Richards et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2010Cited by: 4References: 1

  • Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns Across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier

    Open AccessAna S L Rodrigues, Robert M Ewers et al.ARTICLEScience2009

    Boom and Bust The Brazilian Amazon is renowned for its biodiversity and for its influence on climate regulation and geochemical cycles. It is also one of the country's poorest regions. For decades, much economic development has been pursued through conversion of forest for agriculture and cattle-ranching. Rodrigues et al. (p. 1435 ) investigated whether this pattern of land use brings lasting prosperity by analyzing data on the economic developme…

  • Priority Areas for Establishing National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessAdalberto Veríssimo, Mark A Cochrane et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2002

    Veríssimo, A., M. A. Cochrane, C. Souza Jr. and R. Salomão 2002. Priority Areas for Establishing National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Conservation Ecology 6(1):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00377-060104