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Carte, L., Hofflinger, Á., & Polk, M. H. (2021). Expanding Exotic Forest Plantations and Declining Rural Populations in La Araucanía, Chile. Land, 10(3), 283.
Cisneros, E., K. Kis-Katos, and N. Nuryartono (2021): Palm Oil and the Politics of Deforestation in Indonesia. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 108: 102,453, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102453.
Denvir, A., Arima, E. Y., González-Rodríguez, A., & Young, K. R. (2021). Ecological and human dimensions of avocado expansion in México: Towards supply-chain sustainability. Ambio, 1-15.
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An assessment of the spatial distribution of shallow Ramos-Scharrón, C. E., Arima, E. Y., & Hughes, K. S. (2020). An assessment of the spatial distribution of shallow landslides induced by Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. Physical Geography, 1-29. [https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2020.1801121 ] When compared to other single tropical cyclone landslide inventories from throughout the world, the density of landslides triggered by Hurricane María in Puerto Rico clearly stands out as an anomaly. This article uses geostatistical tools to identify the factors controlling the spatial distribution of the >70,000 new landslides triggered by rainfall associated to Hurricane María. Results show how rainfall, lithology, slope, and land cover were the most important factors controlling landslide densities throughout the island.
Browning, T. N., Sawyer, D. E., Brooks, G. R., Larson, R. A., Ramos-Scharrón, C. E., & Canals-Silander, M. (2019). Widespread deposition in a coastal bay following three major 2017 hurricanes (Irma, Jose, and Maria). Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-13. [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43062-4] Through a combined approach that included bathymetric surveys, geochemical analyses of sediments, ocean wave modeling, and sediment budget analyses this study describes that two back to back hurricanes that affected the island of St. John led to about 25 cm of fresh sediment accumulation and that most of this sediment was the product of wave activity and not the direct product of watershed erosion.
Ramos-Scharrón, C. E., & Arima, E. (2019). Hurricane María’s precipitation signature in Puerto Rico: A conceivable presage of rains to come. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-7. [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52198-2 ] This article answers the question of how Hurricane María’s rainfall compares to the historical record of tropical storms that have assailed Puerto Rico since 1898. Results show that Hurricane María’s rainfall is undoubtedly the most intense ever recorded on the island. Recent work has suggested that María’s rainfall was indeed enhanced by global climate change. If this holds true, then María’s rainfall signature in merits consideration as a new addition to the list of recent record-breaking rainfall extreme events likely attributable to global climate change.