Characterizing patterns of agricultural land use in Amazonia by merging satellite classifications and census data

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 18-1-18-14

  Cardille, Jeffrey A ^a   Foley, Jonathan A ^a   Costa, Marcos Heil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Amazon; Census; Cover; Land use

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CENSUS; LAND USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0036770898     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000gb001386     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Auge S. A. Editores, El Perú y Sus Recursos: Atlas Geográfico y Económico, 235 pp., Lima, 1994.
2. Belward, A. S., and T. R. Loveland, The DIS 1 km land cover data set, Global Change Newsl. 27, pp. 7-8, Int. Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Toulouse, France, 1996.
3. Breiman, L., Classification and Regression Trees, 358 pp., Wadsworth, Belmont, Calif., 1984.
4. Cochrane, M. A., A. Alencar, M. D. Schulze, C. M. Souza, D. C. Nepstad, P. Lefebvre, and E. A. Davidson, Positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests, Science, 284(5421), 1832-1835, 1999.
5. Conselho Nacional de Geografia Divisão de Geografia, Atlas do Brasil: Geral e Regional, 705 pp., Conselho Nacional de Geografia, Rio de Janiero, 1960.
6. DeFries, R. S., C. B. Field, I. Fung, G. J. Collatz, and L. Bounoua, Combining satellite data and biogeochemical models to estimate global effects of human-induced land cover change on carbon emissions and primary productivity, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 13(3), 803-815, 1999.
7. Fearnside, P. M., Predominant land uses in Brazilian Amazonia, in Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest, edited by A. B. Anderson, pp. 233-251, Columbia Univ. Press, New York, 1990.
8. Fearnside, P., Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: The effect of population and land-tenure, Ambio, 22(8), 537-545, 1993.
9. Fearnside, P., Amazonian deforestation and global warming: Carbon stocks in vegetation replacing Brazil's Amazon forest. For. Ecol. Manage., 80(1-3), 21-34, 1996.
10. Frolking, S., X. M. Xiao, Y. H. Zhuang, W. Salas, and C. S. Li, Agricultural land-use in China: A comparison of area estimates from ground-based census and satellite-borne remote sensing, Global Ecol. Biogeogr., 8(5), 407-416, 1999.
11. Fundação Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Censo Agropecuário: 1995-1996, Rio de Janeiro, 1997.
12. Guild, L. S., J. B. Kauffman, L. J. Ellingson, D. L. Cummings, and E. A. Castro, Dynamics associated with total aboveground biomass, C. nutrient pools, and biomass burning of primary forest and pasture in Rondonia. Brazil during SCAR-B, J. Geophys. Res., 103(D24), 32,091-32,100, 1998.
13. Hansen, M. C., and B. Reed, A comparison of the IGBP DISCover and University of Maryland 1 km global land cover products, Int. J. Remote Sens., 21(6-7), 1365-1373, 2000.
14. Hansen, M. C., R. S. Defries, J. R. G. Townshend, and R. Sohlberg, Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach, Int. J. Remote Sens., 21(6-7). 1331-1364, 2000.
15. Houghton, R. A., Tropical deforestation and atmospheric carbon dioxide, Clim. Change, 19(1-2), 99-118, 1991.
16. Houghton, R. A., D. S. Lefkowitz, and D. L. Skole, Changes in the landscape of Latin America between 1850 and 1985, 1, Progressive loss of forests, For. Ecol. Manage., 38(3-4), 143-172, 1991a.
17. Houghton, R. A., D. L. Skole, and D. S. Lefkowitz, Changes in the landscape of Latin America between 1850 and 1985, 2, Net release of Co2 to the atmosphere, For. Ecol. Manage., 38(3-4), 173-199, 1991b.
18. Houghton, R. A., D. L. Skole, C. A. Nobre, J. L. Hackler, K. T. Lawrence, and W. H. Chomentowski, Annual fluxes of carbon from deforestation and regrowth in the Brazilian Amazon. Nature, 403(6767), 301-304, 2000.
19. Ihaka, R., and R. Gentleman, A language for data analysis and graphics, J. Comput. Graphical Stat., 5, 299-314, 1996.
20. Instituto Geográfico Militar and Bolivia Ejercito Comando General. Atlas de Bolivia, 272 pp., La Paz, Bolivia, 1997.
21. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática Dirección Técnica de Censos y Encuestas, III Censo Nacional Agropecuario, Lima, 1996.
22. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Amazonia Deforestation: 1997- 1998, report, São José dos Campos, Brazil, 1999.
23. International Association of Agricultural Economists, World Atlas of Agriculture: Under the Aegis of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Instituto Geografico De Agostini, Novara, Italy, 1969.
24. Iverson, L. R., and A. M. Prasad, Predicting abundance of 80 tree species following climate change in the eastern United States, Ecol. Monogr., 68(4), 465-485, 1998.
25. Kauffman, J. B., D. L. Cummings, and D. E. Ward, Fire in the Brazilian Amazon, 2, Biomass, nutrient pools and losses in cattle pastures, Oecologia, 113(3), 415-427, 1998.
26. Lamon, E. C., and C. A. Stow, Sources of variability in microcontaminant data for Lake Michigan salmonids: Statistical models and implications for trend detection, Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 56, 71-85, 1999.
27. Laurance, W. F., S. G. Laurance, L. V. Ferreira, J. M. Rankin-De Merona, C. Gascon, and T. E. Lovejoy, Biomass collapse in Amazonian forest fragments, Science, 278(5340), 1117-1118, 1997.
28. Laurance, W. F., L. V. Ferreira, J. M. Rankin-De Merona, and S. G. Laurance, Rain forest fragmentation and the dynamics of Amazonian tree communities, Ecology, 79(6), 2032-2040, 1998.
29. Laurance, W. F., D. Perez-Salicrup, P. Delamonica, P. M. Fearnside, S. D'Angelo, A. Jerozolinski, L. Pohl, and T. E. Lovejoy, Rain forest fragmentation and the structure of Amazonian liana communities, Ecology, 82(1), 105-116, 2001.
30. Loveland, T. R., Z. L. Zhu, D. O. Ohlen, J. F. Brown, B. C. Reed, and L. M. Yang, An analysis of the IGBP global land-cover characterization process, Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sens., 65(9), 1021-1032, 1999.
31. Michaelsen, J., D. S. Schimel, M. A. Friedl, F. W. Davis, and R. C. Dubayah, Regression tree analysis of satellite and terrain data to guide vegetation sampling and surveys, J. Veg. Sci., 5(5), 673-686, 1994.
32. Mittermeier, R. A., C. G. Mittermeier, N. Myers, and P. Robles Gil, Hotspots: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions, 430 pp., Cemex, Mexico City, 1999.
33. Moran, E., and E. Brondizio, Land-use change after deforestation in Amazonia, in People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science, edited by D. M. Liverman, pp. 94-120. National Academy, Washington, D. C., 1998.
34. Neill, C., B. Fry, J. Melillo, P. Steudler, J. Moraes, and C. Cerri, Forest-and pasture-derived carbon contributions to carbon stocks and microbial respiration of tropical pasture soils. Oecologia, 107(1), 113-119, 1996.
35. Nepstad, D. C., C. Uhl, and E. A. S. Serrao, Surmounting barriers to forest regeneration in abandoned, highly degraded pastures: A case study from Paragominas, Para, Brazil, in Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest, edited by A. B. Anderson. pp. 215-229, Columbia Univ. Press, New York, 1990.
36. Nepstad, D. C., C. Uhl, C. A. Pereira, and J. M. C. daSilva, A comparative study of tree establishment in abandoned pasture and mature forest of eastern Amazonia, Oikos, 76(1), 25-39, 1996.
37. Nepstad, D., et al., Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forest by logging and fire, Nature, 398(6727), 505-508, 1999.
38. Nobre, C. A., et al., The Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA): Concise Experimental Plan, Winand Staring Cent. for Integrated Land, Soil and Water Res., Wageningen, Netherlands, 1996.
39. Prince, S. D., and M. K. Steininger, Biophysical stratification of the Amazon basin, Global Change Biol., 5(1), 1-22, 1999.
40. Ramankutty, N., and J. A. Foley, Characterizing patterns of global land use: An analysis of global croplands data, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 12(4), 667-685, 1998.
41. Ramankutty, N., and J. A. Foley, Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 13(4), 997-1027, 1999.
42. Rand McNally, et al., The New International Atlas, Chicago, Ill., 1994.
43. Republica de Bolivia Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, II Censo Nacional Agropecuario (1984): Resultados Departamentales, 162 pp., La Paz, 1990.
44. Rosenfeld, D., TRMM observed first direct evidence of smoke from forest fires inhibiting rainfall, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26(20), 3105-3108, 1999.
45. Sistema Estadistico Agropecuario Nacional, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Encuesta Nacional de Superficie y Producción Agropecuarias de Areas, Quito, 1995.
46. Skole, D. L., Data on global land-cover change: acquisition, assessment, and analysis, in Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective: Papers Arising From the 1991 OIES Global Change Institute, edited by W.B. Meyer and B. L. Turner, 537 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1994.
47. Skole, D., and C. Tucker, Tropical deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the Amazon: Satellite data from 1978 to 1988, Science, 260(5116), 1905-1910, 1993.
48. Townshend, J. R. G., et al., The NASA Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project, paper presented at ASPRS Conference: Land Satellite Information in the Next Decade, Am. Soc. for Photogramm, and Remote Sens., Vienna, Va, 1995.
49. Turner, I. M., Species loss in fragments of tropical rain forest: A review of the evidence, J. Appl. Ecol., 33(2), 200 -209, 1996.
50. Uhl, C., and J. B. Kauffman, Deforestation, fire susceptibility, and potential tree responses to fire in the eastern Amazon, Ecology, 71(2), 437-449, 1990.
51. Uhl, C., R. Buschbacher, and E. A. Serrao, Abandoned pastures in Eastern Amazonia, 1, Patterns of plant succession, J. Ecol., 76(3), 663-681, 1988.
52. U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, FAOSTAT Agricultural Data, http://apps.fao.org/page/collections, Rome, 2000.
53. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Major World Crop areas and climatic profiles, USDA Agric. Handb. 664, 279 pp., Washington, D. C., 1994.
54. Venables, W. N., and B. D. Ripley, Modern Applied Statistics With S-PLUS, 548 pp., Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997.
55. Verburg, P. H., and Y. Q. Chen, Multiscale characterization of land-use patterns in China, Ecosystems, 3(4), 369-385, 2000.
56. Williams, M. R., and J. M. Melack, Solute export from forested and partially deforested catchments in the central Amazon, Biogeochemistry, 38(1), 67-102, 1997.
57. Wood, C. H., and D. Skole, Linking satellite, census, and survey data to study deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, in People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science, edited by D. M. Liverman, pp. 94-120, National Academy, Washington, D. C., 1998.