Below are recent papers related to the Amazon PyroCarbon Project
Papers
Vedovato, L. B., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Almeida, D. R. A., Bartholomew, D. C., Assis, M., Dalagnol, R., Gorgens, E. B., Silva‐Junior, C. H. L., Ometto, J. P., Pontes‐Lopes, A., Silva, C. A., Valbuena, R., & Feldpausch, T. R. (2025). Impacts of fire on canopy structure and its resilience depend on successional stage in Amazonian secondary forests. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, rse2.431. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.431
Naval, M. L. M., Bieluczyk, W., Alvarez, F., Carvalho, L. C. da S., Maracahipes-Santos, L., Oliveira, E. A. de, Silva, K. G. da, Pereira, M. B., Brando, P. M., Marimon Junior, B. H., Camargo, P. B. de, & Feldpausch, T. R. (2025). Impacts of repeated forest fires and agriculture on soil organic matter and health in southern Amazonia. CATENA, 254, 108924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.108924
Wang, Y., Gallego-Sala, A., Bird, M. I., Moss, P., McGowan, H. A., Benavides, J. C., Honorio Coronado, E. N., & Feldpausch, T. R. (2025). Wildfire legacies on pyrogenic carbon stocks in Amazonian peatlands. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 678. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02674-7
Pereira, M. B., Elias, F., Teixeira, N. D. A., Feldpausch, T. R., Marimon-Junior, B. H., & Marimon, B. S. (2025). Post-fire changes in tree diversity, composition and carbon in seasonal forests in the Southern Amazonia. Forest Ecology and Management, 578, 122447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122447
Alvarez, F., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Marimon, B. S., Ter Steege, H., Phillips, O. L., Dias Françoso Brandão, R., Matricardi, E. A. T., Pinto, J. R. R., Guimarães Guilherme, F. A., Leandro Bueno, M., Miranda, S., Walter, B. M. T., Rodrigues Munhoz, C. B., De Souza Lima, E., Aquino, F. D. G., Mews, H. A., Ribeiro, J. F., Carniello, M. A., Bustamante, M. M. D. C., … Feldpausch, T. R. (2025). Tree species hyperdominance and rarity in the South American Cerrado. Communications Biology, 8(1), 695. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07623-w