Amazon Forest to Field
Investigating post-deforestation soil carbon persistence under changing climate and land-use in the Amazon Basin
Every year, the Amazon frontier loses forest to farmland — but while the trees disappear from satellite images, a hidden transformation unfolds in the soil beneath.
The Amazon Forest to Field project investigates the mechanistic controls of soil organic carbon (SOC) persistence after deforestation, tracing how fire, clay mineralogy, land-use management, and climate determine whether centuries of stored carbon stays locked underground or returns to the atmosphere as CO₂. By combining continent-scale field sampling across the Arc of Deforestation with process-based modelling, we identify the pathways toward carbon-negative agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon.
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4
Regional sites across Amazonia
(Acre, Amazonas, Pará, Mato Grosso)
10
Partner institutions
18
Researchers from five countries
3
Years of measurements
Across the Arc of Deforestation, the carbon beneath our feet is being rewritten.
Latest news
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Amazon Soil Carbon — The Missing Credit
Amazon Soil Carbon: Policy Brief Summary The conversion of forest to agriculture in the Amazon triggers a “deforestation…
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Post-doc opportunity with the Amazon PyroCarbon Project
Pyrogenic Carbon in the Amazon: quantifying soil carbon responses to the effect of fire. Project title: Determination of…
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Amazon Forest to Field Project Officially Launched!
We are pleased to announce the start of the Amazon Forest to Field Project. This major international collaboration,…
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