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Acil, N., Rodríguez-Veiga, P., Carreiras, J.M.B., Quegan, S., Heiskanen, J., Pellikka, P., Adhikari, H., Araza, A., Herold, M., Cartus, O., Smallman, T.L., Williams, M., Nwobi, C.J., Tsutsumida, N., Ryan, C.M., Brade, T., Balzter, H. (2025). Loss of tropical moist broadleaf forest has turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a source (submitted).
Higginbottom, T., Carreiras, J.M.B., Quegan, S., Godlee, J.L., Bowers, S., Brade, T., Finckh, M., Gonçalves, F.M., Holdo, R., Makungwa, S., Mbongwa, S., McNicol, I.M., Muledi, J., Revermann, R., Ribeiro, N., Shutcha, M.N., Syampungan, S., te Beest, M., William, M., Ryan, C.M. (2025). Understanding L-band SAR interactions in African woodlands and savannahs: the role of stem size, density, and biomass (submitted).
European Commission: Joint Research Centre, Buchle, R., Bourgoin, C., Carreiras, J., Heinrich, V., Achard, F. (2025). Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Amazon - Update for year 2023 and assessment of humid forest regrowth. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2025, JRC140548 (internal peer review).
Carreiras, J.M.B., Higginbottom, T., Godlee, J.L., Harrison, S., Benitez, L., Mongrabi, P.J., Levesley, A., Melgaço, K., Milodowski, D., Pickavance, G., Wells, G., Oliveira, E.A., Arroyo, L., Bowers, S., Brienen, R.J.W., Cardoso, D., Castro, A.A.J.F., Chavez, E., Coutinho, I.A.C., Domingues, T.F., Elias, F., Espírito-Santo, M.M., Feldpausch, T.R., Galbraith, D., Gloor, E., Gonçalves, F.M.P., Gotore, T., Ishida, F.Y., Killeen, T.J., Malhi, Y., Marimon, B.S., Marimon-Júnior, B., Marques Ramos, D., Reis, S.M.A., Mcnicol, I., Mitchard, E., Moonlight, P., Morandi, P., Morellato, L.P.C., Muchawona, A., Muledi, J., Murakami, A., Ngoy Shutcha, M., Nieto-Quintano, P., Parada-Gutierrez, A., Santos Prestes, N.C.C., Silva de Queiroz, L.P., Silva Rodrigues, P.M., Silva, J., Santos, R.M., Särkinen, T., Silva, D.F.P.F., Sousa Oliveira, T.C., Steininger, M., Tchamba, J., Veenendaal, E., Zuanny, D.C., Baker, T.R., Dexter, K.G., Hegerl, G., Pennington, R.T., Phillips, O.L., Sitch, S., Williams, M., Quegan, S., Ryan, C.M., Determinants of L-Band Backscatter in Dry Tropical Ecosystems: Implications for Biomass Mapping. Preprint article available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5035787
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Rocha, R., Ferreira, D.F.A, López-Baucells, A., Farneda, F.Z., Carreiras, J.M.B., Palmeirim, J.M., Meyer, C.F.J. (2017). Does sex matter? Gender-specific responses to forest fragmentation in Neotropical bats. Biotropica, 49, 881-890.
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Carreiras, J.M.B., Jones, J., Lucas, R., Shimabukuro, Y.E. (2017). Mapping major land cover types and retrieving the age of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon by combining single-date optical and radar remote sensing data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 194, 16–32.
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Matos, F., Magnago, L., Gastauer, M., Carreiras, J., Simonelli, M., Meira-Neto, J., Edwards, D. (2017). Effects of landscape configuration, composition and edges on phylogenetic diversity of trees in a highly fragmented tropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 105, 265–276.
Rosa, I.M.D., Purves, D., Carreiras, J.M.B., Ewers, R.M. (2015). Modelling land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon: temporal changes in drivers and calibration issues. Regional Environmental Change, 15, 123-137.
Lucas, R.M., Clewley, D., Accad, A., Butler, D., Armston, J., Bowen, M., Bunting, P., Carreiras, J., Dwyer, J., Eyre, T., Kelly, A., McAlpine, C., Pollock, S., Seabrook, L. (2014). Mapping forest growth and degradation stage in the Brigalow Belt Bioregion of Australia through integration of ALOS PALSAR and Landsat-derived foliage projective cover data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 155, 42-57.
Carreiras, J.M.B., Lucas, R.M., Jones, J., Gabriel, C. (2014). Land use and land cover change dynamics across the Brazilian Amazon: insights from extensive time-series of remote sensing data. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e104144.
Lucas, R., Rebelo, L.-M., Fatoyinbo, L., Rosenqvist, A., Itoh, T., Shimada, M., Simard, M., Souza-Filho, P.W., Thomas, N., Trettin, C., Accad, A., Carreiras, J., Hilarides, L. (2014). Contribution of L-band SAR to systematic global mangrove monitoring. Marine and Freshwater Research, 65, 589-603.
Ewers, R.M., Didham, R.K., Pearse, W.D., Lefebvre, V., Rosa, I.M.D., Carreiras, J.M.B., Lucas, R.M., Reuman, D.C. (2013). Using landscape history to predict biodiversity patterns in fragmented landscapes. Ecology Letters, 16, 1221-1233.
Carreiras, J.M.B., Melo, J.B., Vasconcelos, M.J. (2013). Estimating the above-ground biomass in miombo savanna woodlands (Mozambique, East Africa) using L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar data. Remote Sensing, 5, 1524-1548.
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