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Adriano Venturieri

Researcher at Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária

Publications -  34
Citations -  1562

Adriano Venturieri is an academic researcher from Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária. The author has contributed to research in topics: Amazon rainforest & Land use. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 30 publications receiving 1308 citations. Previous affiliations of Adriano Venturieri include Institut de recherche pour le développement.

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Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a large data set of plants, birds and dung beetles (1,538, 460 and 156 species, respectively) sampled in 36 catchments in the Brazilian state of Para.
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High spatial resolution land use and land cover mapping of the Brazilian Legal Amazon in 2008 using Landsat-5/TM and MODIS data

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed map of land use land cover of the deforested areas of the Brazilian Legal Amazon up to 2008 was created by using Landsat-5/TM images analyzed with techniques, such as linear spectral mixture model, threshold slicing and visual interpretation, aided by temporal information extracted from NDVI MODIS time series.
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Crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Sao Felix do Xingu in South Para

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how landscape dynamics are related to infrastructure development, ecological conditions, zoning policies and to the evolution and the organisation of the production, consumption and marketing chains of livestock products.
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A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

Toby A. Gardner, +101 more
TL;DR: The Sustainable Amazon Network (Rede Amazônia Sustentável, RAS), a multidisciplinary research initiative involving more than 30 partner organizations working to assess both social and ecological dimensions of land-use sustainability in eastern Brazilian Amazonia, is presented.