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Mateus Batistella is affiliated with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation in Brazil and has a research focus primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses topics related to land use, ecosystem services, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, among other areas concentrated on environmental and agricultural issues.

They have published extensively on subjects including:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Rural Development and Agriculture
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Soil and Land Suitability Analysis

Among their recent scholarly contributions are the following papers:

  • "Three decades of land-use and land-cover change in mountain regions of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest" (2020), published in Landscape and Urban Planning
  • "Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems" (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Land-Use Changes in Distant Places: Implementation of a Telecoupled Agent-Based Model" (2020), published in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  • "Three Decades of Changes in Brazilian Municipalities and Their Food Production Systems" (2020), published in Land
  • "Slow-down of deforestation following a Brazilian forest policy was less effective on private lands than in all conservation areas" (2023), published in Communications Earth & Environment

Mateus Batistella frequently collaborates with various researchers, including:

  • Ramón Silva
  • Emilio F. Morán
  • Jianguo Liu
  • James Millington
  • Yue Dou

Their work appears commonly in journals such as:

  • Land
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ambiente & sociedade
  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Scientific Reports

Their subfields of study cover:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Plant Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

    Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Mateus Batistella;Ruth DeFries

  • Mapping soil erosion risk in Rondônia, Brazilian Amazonia: using RUSLE, remote sensing and GIS

    D. Lu;G. Li;G. S. Valladares;M. Batistella

  • Linear mixture model applied to Amazonian vegetation classification

    Dengsheng Lu;Emilio Moran;Mateus Batistella;Mateus Batistella

  • Aboveground Forest Biomass Estimation with Landsat and LiDAR Data and Uncertainty Analysis of the Estimates

    Dengsheng Lu;Qi Chen;Guangxing Wang;Emilio Moran

  • Land‐cover binary change detection methods for use in the moist tropical region of the Amazon: a comparative study

    D. Lu;P. Mausel;M. Batistella;E. Moran

  • Exploring TM Image Texture and its Relationships with Biomass Estimation in Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon.

    Dengsheng Lu;Mateus Batistella

  • A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

    Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;Joice Ferreira;Jos Barlow;Alexander C. Lees

  • COMPARISON OF LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION METHODS IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON BASIN

    Dengsheng Lu;Paul Mausel;Mateus Batistella;Emilio Moran

  • Mapping croplands, cropping patterns, and crop types using MODIS time-series data

    Yaoliang Chen;Yaoliang Chen;Dengsheng Lu;Emilio Moran;Mateus Batistella;Mateus Batistella

  • Land use change emission scenarios: anticipating a forest transition process in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar;Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira;Talita Oliveira Assis;Eloi L Dalla‐Nora

  • Settlement Design, Forest Fragmentation, and Landscape Change in Rondonia, Amazonia

    Mateus Batistella;Scott Robeson;Emilio F. Moran

  • Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability

    Jianguo Liu;Yue Dou;Mateus Batistella;Mateus Batistella;Edward Challies;Edward Challies

  • Aboveground biomass variability across intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon

    Marcos Longo;Michael M. Keller;Michael M. Keller;Michael M. Keller;Maiza N. dos‐Santos;Veronika Leitold

  • A comparative analysis of ALOS PALSAR L-band and RADARSAT-2 C-band data for land-cover classification in a tropical moist region

    Guiying Li;Dengsheng Lu;Emilio Moran;Luciano Dutra

  • Satellite estimation of aboveground biomass and impacts of forest stand structure

    Dengsheng Lu;Mateus Batistella;Emilio Moran

  • Mapping and monitoring land degradation risks in the Western Brazilian Amazon using multitemporal Landsat TM/ETM+ images

    D. Lu;M. Batistella;P. Mausel;E. Moran

  • Drivers of land change: Human-environment interactions and the Atlantic forest transition in the Paraíba Valley, Brazil

    Ramon F.B. da Silva;Mateus Batistella;Emilio F. Moran

  • Application of spectral mixture analysis to Amazonian land-use and land-cover classification

    D. Lu;M. Batistella;E. Moran;P. Mausel

  • A Comparison of Multisensor Integration Methods for Land Cover Classification in the Brazilian Amazon

    Dengsheng Lu;Guiying Li;Emilio Moran;Luciano Dutra

  • Multitemporal spectral mixture analysis for Amazonian land-cover change detection

    Dengsheng Lu;Mateus Batistella;Mateus Batistella;Emilio Moran

Frequent Co-Authors

Emilio F. Moran
Emilio F. Moran Michigan State University
Dengsheng Lu
Dengsheng Lu Fujian Normal University
Jianguo Liu
Jianguo Liu Michigan State University
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Eduardo S. Brondizio Indiana University
Michael Keller
Michael Keller US Forest Service
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto National Institute for Space Research
Luiz Antonio Martinelli
Luiz Antonio Martinelli Universidade de São Paulo
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Douglas C. Morton
Douglas C. Morton Goddard Space Flight Center
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University

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