Human and Physical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazonia: Forest Regeneration and Landscape Structure

Start Date:

01/01/1998

End Date:

01/01/2001

Project Call:

Land-Cover Land-Use Change

Science Theme:

Detection and Monitoring of LCLUC

Predictive Land Use Modeling

Drivers of Change

Regional Initiative:

Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia

Region:

Amazon Basin

South America

Solicitation:

LBA-97

Team members:

Person Name	Person role on project	Affiliation
Emilio Moran	Principal Investigator	Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States

Abstract:

To combine field inventories of soil and vegetation to quantify ecological thresholds driving structural and functional dynamics of secondary succession areas subjected to different land use histories across seven study regions. To develop models that incorporate socioeconomic, institutional, and demographic determinants of land use and cover change. To strengthen capacity of Amazonian institutions to carry out land use and land cover change and human dimensions research.

Project Documents

Year	Authors	Type	Title
2005	Mateus Batistella Emilio Moran Eduardo Brondizio Paul Mausel Lars Hedin Ryan Jensen Dalton Valeriano Simeao de Medeiros	NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation	Human and Physical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazonia: Towards a Multiscale Synthesis
2004	Emilio Moran	Significant Results	Implications for Carbon Budgets in Northern North America(Significant Results)
2004	Emilio Moran	Significant Results	Implications for Carbon Budgets in Northern North America (Significant Results)
2003		Significant Results	Human and Biophysical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazonia: Towards a Multi-scale Synthesis LC-09
2000	Emilio Moran	NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation	Human and Physical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazonia: Forest Regeneration and Landscape Structure