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44
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World Ranking
4942
National Ranking
87

Overview

Ane Alencar is affiliated with the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular attention to global and planetary change, ecology, economics and econometrics, nature and landscape conservation, and environmental engineering.

Their body of work covers key topics including conservation, biodiversity, and resource management; fire effects on ecosystems; remote sensing in agriculture; land use and ecosystem services; economic and environmental valuation; forest ecology and management; and rangeland and wildlife management.

Alencar has published multiple papers in notable venues such as Remote Sensing, Communications Earth & Environment, Environmental Research Letters, Science, and Scientific Reports. Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Alencar include:

  • Mapping Three Decades of Changes in the Brazilian Savanna Native Vegetation Using Landsat Data Processed in the Google Earth Engine Platform, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • The Drivers and Impacts of Amazon Forest Degradation, 2023, Science
  • Amazon Wildfires: Scenes from a Foreseeable Disaster, 2020, Flora
  • A Better Amazon Road Network for People and the Environment, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in Alencar's research include Paulo Brando, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Julia Z. Shimbo, Liana O. Anderson, and Tasso Azevedo. These co-authors have participated in multiple studies, contributing to the collective understanding of Amazonian and broader environmental dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire

    Daniel C. Nepstad;Adalberto Verssimo;Ane Alencar;Carlos Nobre

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

    Carlos M. Souza;Julia Z. Shimbo;Marcos R. Rosa;Leandro L. Parente

  • Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

    Daniel Nepstad;David McGrath;Claudia Stickler;Ane Alencar

  • Cracking Brazil's Forest Code

    Britaldo Soares-Filho;Raoni Rajão;Marcia Macedo;Marcia Macedo;Arnaldo Carneiro

  • Positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests

    Mark A. Cochrane;Ane Alencar;Mark D. Schulze;Carlos M. Souza

  • Inhibition of Amazon deforestation and fire by parks and indigenous lands.

    D. Nepstad;D. Nepstad;S. Schwartzman;B. Bamberger;B. Bamberger;M. Santilli

  • Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests

    Daniel Nepstad;Georgia Carvalho;Ana Cristina Barros;Ane Alencar

  • Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions.

    Paulo Monteiro Brando;Paulo Monteiro Brando;Jennifer K. Balch;Daniel C. Nepstad;Douglas C. Morton

  • The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Daniel Nepstad;Britaldo S. Soares-Filho;Frank Merry;André Lima

  • Reexamining fire suppression impacts on brushland fire regimes

    Jon E. Keeley;C. J. Fotheringham;Marco Morais

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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  • Simulating the response of land-cover changes to road paving and governance along a major Amazon highway: the Santarém–Cuiabá corridor

    Britaldo Soares-Filho;Ane Alencar;Daniel Nepstad;Gustavo Cerqueira

  • Forest Understory Fire in the Brazilian Amazon in ENSO and Non-ENSO Years: Area Burned and Committed Carbon Emissions

    Ane Alencar;Daniel Nepstad;Maria Del Carmen Vera Diaz

  • Frontier Governance in Amazonia

    D. Nepstad;D. McGrath;Ane Alencar;A. C. Barros

  • Desmatamento na Amazônia: indo além da “emergência crônica”

    A. Alencar;D.C. Nepstad;D. McGrath;P. Moutinho

  • Landscape fragmentation, severe drought, and the new Amazon forest fire regime

    Ane A. Alencar;Paulo M. Brando;Gregory P. Asner;Francis E. Putz

  • Drought impacts on the Amazon forest: the remote sensing perspective

    Gregory P. Asner;Ane Alencar

  • Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity

    Mercedes M. C. Bustamante;Iris Roitman;T. Mitchell Aide;Ane Alencar

  • MODELING FOREST UNDERSTORY FIRES IN AN EASTERN AMAZONIAN LANDSCAPE

    Ane A. C. Alencar;Luis A. Solórzano;Daniel C. Nepstad

  • Limits of Brazil’s Forest Code as a means to end illegal deforestation

    Andrea A. Azevedo;Raoni Rajão;Marcelo A. Costa;Marcelo C. C. Stabile

  • Flames in the rain forest : origins, impacts and alternatives to Amazonian fires

    Ane A. Alencar;Daniel C. Nepstad;Adriana G. Moreira

  • Mapping Three Decades of Changes in the Brazilian Savanna Native Vegetation Using Landsat Data Processed in the Google Earth Engine Platform

    Ane Alencar;Julia Zanin Shimbo;Felipe E. B. Lenti;Camila Balzani Marques

  • Investigating positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests.

    M. A. Cochrane;A. Alencar;M. D. Schulze;C. M. Souza

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C. Nepstad
Daniel C. Nepstad Woods Hole Research Center
Paulo M. Brando
Paulo M. Brando University of California, Irvine
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante University of Brasília
Britaldo Soares-Filho
Britaldo Soares-Filho Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Michael T. Coe
Michael T. Coe Woods Hole Research Center
Liana O. Anderson
Liana O. Anderson National Institute for Space Research
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Jennifer K. Balch
Jennifer K. Balch University of Colorado Boulder
Carlos A. Nobre
Carlos A. Nobre Universidade de São Paulo
Heiko Balzter
Heiko Balzter University of Leicester

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