Landscape change in tidal floodplains near the mouth of the Amazon River

Mixed potential for sustainable forest use in the tidal floodplain of the Amazon River

“…The dominance of palms in tidal floodplain varies from monospecific palm stands to diverse forests with understory palms (Anderson et al, 1995;Rabelo, 1999;Zarin et al, 2001). Our results suggest that sites with low palm abundance are more suitable for timber management.…”

Energizing agroforestry: Ilex guayusa as an additional commodity to diversify Amazonian agroforestry systems

“…The resulting açaí enriched flood-plain forests increasingly resemble açaí plantations (Weinstein & Moegenburg 2004). This expansion of açaí-managed forest areas has led to deforestation in the flood-plain forest comparable to upland forest areas (Zarin et al 2001). On the other hand, Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) harvesting is considered a good example of the commercialization of a non-timber forest product from the Amazon, contributing to rural livelihoods and forest conservation (Ribeiro et al 2014).…”

Changes in landscape spatial pattern in the highly developing state of Selangor, peninsular Malaysia

“…The continuous rapid change of land use nowadays is common in developing tropical countries with fast growing economies. However, this scenario has been recognised to bring severe environmental degradation to both natural ecosystems, such as forest ecosystems (Endress and Chinea, 2001), wetland ecosystems (Zarin et al, 2001;Alonso-Perez et al, 2003) and riverine ecosystems (Yunus et al, 2003), as well as man-made ecosystems, such as urban ecosystems (Lopez et al, 2001).…”