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The Ghosts of Development Past: Deforestation and Coca in Western Amazonia
For decades coca cultivation has been proposed as a cause of deforestation and attractor of migration to the forest frontier of western …
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The Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes
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Spatial autocorrelation reduces model precision and predictive power in deforestation analyses
Generalized linear models are often used to identify covariates of landscape processes and to model land‐use change. Generalized linear …
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Deforestation and Coca Cultivation Rooted in Twentieth-Century Development Projects
Most of the world’s coca—the source of cocaine—is grown in the Amazonian forests of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. As cultivation …
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The world drug problem and sustainable development
Illicit crop cultivation often occurs in forested areas and contributes to deforestation when it results in the clearing of woodland. …
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Demand for beef is unrelated to pasture expansion in northwestern Amazonia
For decades, pastures have replaced Amazon forests, threatening biodiversity. Two dominant hypotheses explain this process. First, …
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Forests and Drugs: Coca-Driven Deforestation in Tropical Biodiversity Hotspots
Identifying drivers of deforestation in tropical biodiversity hotspots is critical to assess threats to particular ecosystems and …
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El Callejón de los Milagros
Magazine letter to the editor.
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The river-refuge hypothesis and other contributions of Márcio Ayres to conservation science
For more than a century, biogeographers have sought to explain the large number of species found in Amazonian forests. The role of …
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Forests in the Time of Violence: Conservation Implications of the Colombian War
Forest remnants in the Colombian Amazon, Andes, and Chocó are the last repositories of a highly diverse and endemic biota. Historical …
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