Celso H L Silva

Biographic Data

ID6822839
NAMECelso H L Silva
GIVEN NAMESCelso H L
FAMILY NAMESilva
SIGNATURESILVA C H L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manchester
ORCID0000-0002-1052-5551
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • 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…

  • Protected areas are effective on curbing fires in the Amazon

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

  • 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…

  • Amazon forest on the edge of collapse in the Maranhão State, Brazil

    Open AccessCelso H L Silva Junior, Celso H L Silva et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2020Cited by: 2References: 20

  • 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…