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Frontier Deforestation

Frontier Deforestation is a deforestation pattern characterized by the expansion of agricultural or extractive activities into previously undeveloped, remote forested regions, distinguished from other deforestation types by its association with advancing human land-use fronts and infrastructure incursion into intact forest landscapes.

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4.7K

Citations

263

Authors

130

Institutions

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2017–2026

29

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Publications

71

Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns Across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier

Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Robert M. Ewers, Luke Parry et al. · Science · 2009 · 324 citations

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Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers

John F. McCarthy, Rob Cramb · Geographical Journal · 2009 · 302 citations

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Soybeans, Development and Conservation on the Amazon Frontier

Susanna B. Hecht · Development and Change · 2005 · 262 citations · Full text

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Population and deforestation: why rural migration matters

David L. Carr · Progress in Human Geography · 2008 · 240 citations · Full text

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Rapid avifaunal collapse along the Amazonian deforestation frontier

Alexander Charles Lees, Carlos A. Peres · Biological Conservation · 2006 · 150 citations

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Authors

263

  1. CA
    Carlos A. Peres

    University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 318 citations

    4

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  2. YL
    Yann le Polain de Waroux

    McGill University, Canada

    3 publications · 274 citations

    3

    h-index

  3. PM
    Philip M. Fearnside

    Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil

    3 publications · 141 citations

    3

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  4. MI
    Maria Isabel Sobral Escada

    Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil

    3 publications · 121 citations

    3

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  5. PM
    Patrick Meyfroidt

    UCLouvain, Belgium

    3 publications · 180 citations

    3

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Institutions

130

  1. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Berlin, Germany

    6 h-index

    16 publications

    1K citations

  2. Universidade de Brasília

    Brasília, Brazil

    6 h-index

    20 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. University of East Anglia

    Norwich, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    864 citations

  4. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

    São José dos Campos, Brazil

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    881 citations

  5. UCLouvain

    Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    458 citations

  6. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    4 h-index

    16 publications

    1K citations

  7. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    301 citations

  8. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    188 citations

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Venues

  1. Land Use Policy

    7 publications · 496 citations

    7

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  2. Earth Interactions

    EI · 2 publications · 88 citations

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  3. Global Change Biology

    2 publications · 125 citations

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  4. Conservation Biology

    2 publications · 146 citations

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  5. Ecological Economics

    2 publications · 109 citations

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