David E. Knapp

TL;DR: This work developed a large-scale, high-resolution, automated remote-sensing analysis of selective logging in the top five timber-producing states of the Brazilian Amazon, equivalent to 60 to 123% of previously reported deforestation area.

TL;DR: Very high-resolution monitoring reduces uncertainty in carbon emissions for REDD programs while uncovering fundamental environmental controls on forest carbon storage and their interactions with land-use change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified the effects of both deforestation and selective logging, separately and combined, on forest fragmentation and edge effects over large regions, and contextualized the spatio-temporal dynamics of this forest fragmentation through a literature review of potential ecological repercussions of edge creation.

TL;DR: Although the region shows recent increases in disturbance and deforestation rates and leakage into forests surrounding concession areas, land-use policy and remoteness are serving to protect the Peruvian Amazon.

TL;DR: The results show that logging in the Brazilian Amazon is dominated by highly damaging operations, often followed rapidly by deforestation decades before forests can recover sufficiently to produce timber for a second harvest.