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Overview

Britaldo Soares-Filho is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work predominantly addresses issues related to conservation, land use, and the interaction between ecological systems and economic factors. Key research topics explored include:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Forest Management and Policy

Britaldo Soares-Filho has contributed to various journals and publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Biological Conservation
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Global Change Biology

Notable recent papers include:

  • "The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness" (2020, Science)
  • "Deforestation reduces rainfall and agricultural revenues in the Brazilian Amazon" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "The gathering firestorm in southern Amazonia" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world" (2020, Environmental Research Letters)
  • "Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems" (2022, Global Change Biology)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Raoni Rajão
  • Ubirajara Oliveira
  • Jan Börner
  • Mercedes Bustamante
  • Sónia Maria Carvalho Ribeiro

Best Publications

  • Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin

    Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho;Daniel Curtis Nepstad;Daniel Curtis Nepstad;Lisa M. Curran;Gustavo Coutinho Cerqueira

  • The Amazon basin in transition

    Eric A. Davidson;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Paulo Artaxo;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch

  • Cracking Brazil's Forest Code

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

  • Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot.

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Thomas Brooks;Rafael Feltran-Barbieri;Rafael Feltran-Barbieri;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem

  • Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation

    Britaldo Soares-Filho;Paulo Moutinho;Daniel Nepstad;Anthony Anderson

  • 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

  • Brazil's Soy Moratorium

    H. K. Gibbs;L. Rausch;J. Munger;I. Schelly

  • dinamica—a stochastic cellular automata model designed to simulate the landscape dynamics in an Amazonian colonization frontier

    Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho;Gustavo Coutinho Cerqueira;Cássio Lopes Pennachin

  • The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

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

  • Governance regime and location influence avoided deforestation success of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon

    Christoph Nolte;Arun Agrawal;Kirsten M. Silvius;Britaldo S. Soares-Filho

  • Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Laura J. Sonter;Diego Herrera;Diego Herrera;Damian J. Barrett;Gillian L. Galford

  • Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Kimberly M. Carlson;Lisa M. Curran;Lisa M. Curran;Lisa M. Curran;Dessy Ratnasari;Alice M. Pittman;Alice M. Pittman

  • Regional climate change over eastern Amazonia caused by pasture and soybean cropland expansion

    Gilvan Sampaio;Carlos Nobre;Marcos Heil Costa;Prakki Satyamurty

  • Public policies can reduce tropical deforestation: Lessons and challenges from Brazil

    Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Paulo Barreto;Elis Araújo;Britaldo Soares-Filho

  • The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness

    Raoni Rajão;Britaldo Soares-Filho;Felipe Nunes;Jan Börner

  • 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

  • Deep into the mud: ecological and socio-economic impacts of the dam breach in Mariana, Brazil

    Geraldo Wilson Fernandes;Geraldo Wilson Fernandes;Fernando F. Goulart;Bernardo D. Ranieri;Marcel S. Coelho;Marcel S. Coelho

  • Stochastic cellular automata modeling of urban land use dynamics: empirical development and estimation

    Cláudia Maria de Almeida;Michael Batty;Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro;Gilberto Câmara

  • The influence of historical and potential future deforestation on the stream flow of the Amazon River – Land surface processes and atmospheric feedbacks

    Michael T. Coe;Marcos H. Costa;Britaldo S. Soares-Filho

  • Persistence of cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial analysis of the rationale for beef production

    Maria S. Bowman;Britaldo S. Soares-Filho;Frank D. Merry;Daniel C. Nepstad

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael T. Coe
Michael T. Coe Woods Hole Research Center
Daniel C. Nepstad
Daniel C. Nepstad Woods Hole Research Center
Damian Barrett
Damian Barrett Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Marcos Heil Costa
Marcos Heil Costa Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Paulo M. Brando
Paulo M. Brando University of California, Irvine
Gustavo C. Cerqueira
Gustavo C. Cerqueira Broad Institute
Ane Alencar
Ane Alencar Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante University of Brasília
Chris Moran
Chris Moran Curtin University
Jan Börner
Jan Börner University of Bonn

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