Simulated Impacts of Soy and Infrastructure Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A Maximum Entropy Approach

Simulated Impacts of Soy and Infrastructure Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A Maximum Entropy Approach

Historically, the expansion of soy plantations has been a major driver of land-use/cover change (LUCC) in Brazil. While a series of recent public actions and supply-chain commitments reportedly curbed the replacement of forests by soy, the expansion of the agricultural commodity still poses a consid...

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Main Authors: Gabriel P. Frey, Thales A. P. West, Thomas Hickler, Lisa Rausch, Holly K. Gibbs, Jan Börner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-09-01
Series:Forests
Subjects:
land-use/cover change modeling
deforestation
MaxEnt
infrastructure improvements
tropical conservation
agricultural commodity
Cerrado
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/10/600

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