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Morais, P.d.P.; Arima, E.Y.; de Souza, Á.N.; Pereira, R.S.; Emmert, F.; Cardoso, R.M.; Miguel, E.P.; Matricardi, E.A.T. Assessment of Forest Road Models in Concession Areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Forests 2023, 14, 1388. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14071388
Silva, D., Arima, E. Y. (2023). Sustainability consequences of making land change decisions based on current climatology in the Brazilian Cerrados. Land (12): 914. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040914
Latorre-Cárdenas, M.C., González-Rodríguez, A., Godínez-Gómez, O., Arima, E.Y., Young, K.R., Denvir, A., García-Oliva, F., Ghilardi, A. (2023). Estimating fragmentation and connectivity patterns of the temperate forest in an avocado-dominated landscape to propose conservation strategies. Land (12):631. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030631
Ramos-Scharrón, C., Hernández-Ayala, J., Arima, E.Y., Russell, F. (2023). Preliminary Analyses of the Hydro-Meteorological Signature of Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico. Hydrology (10):40. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology10020040.
Silva, D., Arima, E. Y., Reis, T., Rattis, L. (2023). Temperature effect on Brazilian soybean yields, and farmers’ response. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 21(1) https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2023.2173370.
Min, B., Arima, E. Y., Backer, D., Hicken, A., Kollman, K., and Selway, J. Local partisan biases in allocations of foreign aid: a study of agricultural assistance in India. (2023) World Politics 75 (1): 43-98.
Ramos-Scharrón, C. E., Arima, E. Y., Chen, Y., Ohlson, B., & Vest, B. (2022). Sediment mobilization by rain-driven landslides in a subtropical moist, mix-use, and predominantly metamorphic setting. Geomorphology, 413, 108380.
Zarbá, L., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Boillat, S., Levers, C., Gasparri, I., Aide, T.M., Álvarez-Berríos, N., Anderson, L., Araoz, E., Arima, Y., Batistella, M.,… 2022. Mapping and characterizing social-ecological land systems of South America. Ecology and Society, 27(2).
Arima, E.Y., Denvir, A., Young, K., González-Rodríguez, A., & García-Oliva. 2022. Modelling avocado-driven deforestation in Michoacán, México. Environmental Research Letters 17(3): 034015. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5419.
Arima, E.Y., Barreto, P., Taheripour, F., Aguiar, A. 2021. Dynamic Amazonia: the EU-Mercosur trade agreement and deforestation. Land 10(11): 1243. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10111243
Ramos-Scharrón, C. E., Garnett, C. T., and Arima, E. Y. 2021. A Catalogue of Tropical Cyclone Induced Instantaneous Peak Flows Recorded in Puerto Rico and a Comparison with the World’s Maxima. Hydrology, 8(2), 84.
Denvir, A., Arima, E.Y., González-Rodríguez, A., Young, K.Y. 2021. Ecological and human dimensions of avocado expansion in México: towards a supply-chain sustainability. Ambio. DOI 10.1007/s13280-021-01538-6
Ramos‐Scharrón, C. E., Arima, E. Y., Guidry, A., Ruffe, D., and Vest, B. 2021. Sediment Mobilization by Hurricane‐Driven Shallow Landsliding in a Wet Subtropical Watershed. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126(5), e2020JF006054.
Latrubesse, E.M., d’Horta, F.M., Ribas, C.C., Wittmann, F., Zuanon, J., Park, E., Dunne, T., Arima, E.Y. and Baker, P.A., Vulnerability of the biota in riverine and seasonally flooded habitats to damming of Amazonian rivers. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
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.
Richards, P., Taheripour, F., Arima, E., & Tyner, W. E. (2020). Tariffs on American Soybeans and Their Impact on Land Use Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in South America. Choices, 35(316-2020-1051).
Schank, C.; Cove, M.; Arima, E.Y., et al. (2020) Population status, connectivity, and conservation action for the endangered Baird’s tapir. Biological Conservation 245: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108501
Aldrich, S.; Simmons, C.; Arima, E.Y., Walker, R.T., Michelotti, F., & Castro, E. Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon. PLOS One 1 (2020): e0227378.
Ramos-Scharrón, C.; Arima, Y. (2019). Hurricane María’s precipitation signature in Puerto Rico: a conceivable presage of rains to come. Scientific Reports 9(15612), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52198
Walker, R. T., Simmons, C., Arima, E., Galvan-Miyoshi, Y., Antunes, A., Waylen, M., & Irigaray, M. (2019). Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes: Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century. One Earth, 1(2), 202-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2019.09.009
Latrubesse EM, Arima E.Y., Ferreira ME, et al. Fostering water resource governance and conservation in the Brazilian Cerrado biome. Conservation Science and Practice. 2019; e77. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.77
Simmons, C., Walker, R., Arima, E. Y. et al. Discipline and develop: destruction of the Brazil nut forest in the lower Amazon basin. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. (2019).
Simmons, C., Famolare, L., Macedo, M. Walker, R., Coe, M., Scheffers, B, Arima, E.Y. al. Science in support of Amazonian conservation in the 21st century: the case of Brazil. Biotropica (2018).
Richards, P. and Arima, E. Y. (2018). Capital surpluses in the farming sector and agricultural expansion in Brazil. Environmental Research Letters 13(7), 075011.
Pfaff, A., Robalino, J., Reis, E., Walker, R., Perz, S., Laurance, W., Bohrer, C., Aldrich, S., Arima, E. Y., Caldas, M., and Kirby, K. Roads & DDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers. Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Kiel Institute for the World Economy 12(2018-11), pp. 1-26.
Latrubesse, E. M., Arima, E. Y., Dunne, T., Park, E., Baker, V. R., d’Horta, F. M., Wight, C., Wittmann, F., Zuanon, J., Baker, P. A., & Ribas, C. C. (2017). Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin. Nature, 546(7658), 363-369.
Richards, P., Arima, E., VanWey, L., Cohn, A., & Bhattarai, N. (2017). Are Brazil’s deforesters avoiding detection? Conservation Letters DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12310.
Tasker, K. A, & Arima, E. Y. (2016). Fire regimes in Amazonia: the relative roles of policy and Anthropocene, 14, 46-57.
Laue, J. E.,& Arima, E. Y. (2016). What drives downsizing of protected areas? A case study of Amazon National Park. Journal of Latin American Geography, 15(2), 7-31.
Arima, E. (2016). A spatial probit econometric model of land change: the case of infrastructure development in Western Amazonia, Peru. PLOS One, 11(3): e0152058. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152058.
Sultana, S., Arima, E. Y., & Tasker, K. A. (2016). Combining H/A/Alpha polarimetric decomposition of PolSAR data with image classification for wetland identification: a case study of Pacaya- Samiria National Reserve, Peru. Papers in Applied Geography, 2(1), 9-24.
Simmons, C., Walker, R., Perz, S., Arima, E., Aldrich, S., & Caldas, M. (2016). Spatial patterns of frontier settlement: balancing conservation and development. Journal of Latin American Geography, 15(1), 33-58.
Arima, E. Y., Walker, R. T., Perz, S., & Souza Jr., C. (2015). Explaining the fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon forest. Journal of Land Use Science, 11(3): 257-277. Publication online: April 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2015.1027797.
Laue, J. & Arima, E. Y. (2015). Spatially explicit models of land abandonment in the Amazon. Journal of Land Use Science, 48-75. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2015.1027797
Arima, E. Y., Barreto, P., Araújo, E., & Soares-Filho, B. (2014). Public policies can reduce tropical deforestation: lessons and challenges from Brazil. Land Use Policy, 41, 465-473.
Richards, P. D., Walker, R. T., & Arima, E. Y. (2014). Spatially complex land change: the indirect effect of Brazil’s agricultural sector on land use in Amazonia. Global Environmental Change, 29,1-9.
Arima, E. Y., Walker, R. T., Souza Jr., C., Pereira, R., & do Canto, O. (2013). Spontaneous colonization and forest fragmentation in the Central Amazon Basin. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(6), 1485-1501.
Arima, E. Y., Walker, R. T., & Vergara, D. G. (2013). Assessing the performance of linear feature models: an approach to computational inference. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 79(9), 847-855.
Walker, R., Arima, E., Messina, J., Soares-Filho, B., Perz, S., Vergara, D., Sales, M., Pereira, R., & Castro, W. (2013). Modeling spatial decisions with graph theory: logging roads and forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecological Applications, 23(1), 239-254.
Arima, E. Y., Richards, P., Walker, R.T., & Caldas, M. M. (2011). Statistical confirmation of indirect land use change in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters 6(2), Word Count: 2,478. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024010.
Walker, R., & Arima, E. (2011). Smallholder timber sales along the Transamazon Highway: a comment. Ecological Economics, 70, 1565-1567.
Walker, R., Simmons, C., Aldrich, S., Perz, P., Arima, E., & Caldas, M. (2011). The Amazonian theater of cruelty. Annals of Association of American Geographers, 101(5), 1156-1170.
Simmons, C., Walker, R., Perz, S., Aldrich, S., Caldas, M., Pereira, R., Leite, F., Fernandes, L. C., & Arima, E. (2010). Doing it for themselves: direct action land reform in the Brazilian Amazon. World Development, 38(3), 429-444.
Caldas, M. M., Simmons, C., Walker, R., Perz, S., Aldrich, S., Pereira, R., Leite, F., & Arima, E. (2010). Settlement formation and land cover and land use change: a case study in the Brazilian Journal of Latin American Geography, 9(1), 125-144.
Walker, R., Moore, N. J., Arima, E., Perz, S., Simmons, C., Caldas, M., Vergara, D., & Bohrer, C. (2009). Protecting the Amazon with protected areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(26), 10582-10586.
Walker, R., Browder, J., Arima, E., Simmons, C., Pereira, R., Caldas, M., Shirota, R., & de Zen, S. (2009). Ranching and the new global range: Amazônia in the 21st century. Geoforum, 40(5), 732-745.
Perz, S. G., Caldas, M., Walker, R., Arima, E., & Souza Jr., C. (2008). Road Networks and Forest Fragmentation in the Amazon: Explanations for Local Differences with Implications for Conservation and Development. Journal of Latin American Geography, 7(2), 85-104.
Arima, E. Y., Walker, R. T., Sales, M., Souza Jr., C., & Perz, S. G. (2008). The fragmentation of space in the Amazon basin: emergent road networks. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 74(6): 699-709.
Pontius Jr., R. G., Walker, R., Yao-Kumah, R., Arima, E., Aldrich, S., Caldas, M., & Vergara, D.(2007). Accuracy assessment for a simulation model of Amazonian deforestation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 97(4), 677-695.
Arima, E. Y., Simmons, C. S., Walker, R. T., & Cochrane, M. A. (2007). Fire in the Brazilian Amazon: a spatially explicit model for policy impact analysis. Journal of Regional Science, 47(3), 541-567.
Moore, N., Arima, E., Walker, R., & da Silva, R.R. (2007). Uncertainty and the changing hydroclimatology of the Amazon. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(14), Word Count: 2,130. DOI:10.1029/2007GL030157.
Simmons, C. S., Walker, R. T., Arima, E. Y., Aldrich, S. P., & Caldas, M. M. (2007). The Amazon land war in the South of Pará. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 97(3), 567-592.
Perz, S. G, Caldas, M. M., Arima, E., & Walker, R. (2007). Unofficial road building in the Amazon: socioeconomic and biophysical explanations. Development and Change, 38(3), 529-551.
Perz, S. G, Overdevest, C., Caldas, M. M., Walker, R. T., & Arima, E. Y. (2007). Unofficial road building in the Brazilian Amazon: dilemmas and models for road governance. Environmental Conservation, 34(2), 1-10.
Caldas, M., Walker, R., Arima, E., Perz, S., Aldrich, S., & Simmons, C. (2007). Theorizing land cover and land use change: the peasant economy of Amazonian deforestation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 97(1), 86-110.
Pfaff, A., Robalino, J., Walker, R., Aldrich, S., Caldas, M., Reis E., Perz, S., Bohrer, C., Arima, E., , Laurance, W., & Kirby, K. (2007). Road investments, spatial spillovers, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Regional Science, 47(1), 109-123.
Aldrich, S., Walker, R. T., Arima, E. Y, Caldas, M. M., Browder, J. O., & Perz, S. (2006). Land-cover and land-use change in the Brazilian Amazon: smallholders, ranchers, and frontier stratification. Economic Geography, 82(3), 265-288.
Perz, S. G., Souza Jr., C., Arima, E.Y., Caldas, M., Brandão Jr., A. O. de., Souza, F. K. A. de, & Walker, R. (2005). O dilema das estradas não-oficiais na Amazônia [The dilemma over unofficial roads in the ] Revista Ciência Hoje, 222(37), 56-58. (In Portuguese).
Arima, E. Y., Walker, R. T., Perz, S. G., & Caldas, M. (2005). Loggers and Forest Fragmentation: Behavioral models of road building in the Amazon basin. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95(3), 525-541.
Hupy, J. P., Aldrich, S. P., Schaetzl, R. J., Varnakovida, P., Arima, E. Y., Bookout, J. R., Wiangwang,N., Campos, A. L., & McKnight, K. P. (2005). Mapping soils, vegetation, and landforms: an integrative physical geography field experience. The Professional Geographer, 57(3), 438-451.
Walker, R., Drzyzga, S. A., Li, Y., Qi, J., Caldas, M., Arima, E., & Vergara, D. (2004). A behavioral model of landscape change in the Amazon basin: the colonist case. Ecological Applications, 14(4 – Supplement), s299-s312.
Simmons, C. S., Walker, R. T., Wood, C., Arima, E., & Cochrane, M. (2004). Wildfires in Amazonia: A pilot study examining the role of farming systems, social capital, and fire Journal of Latin American Geography, 3(1), 81-96.
Arima, E. Y., & Uhl, C. (1997). Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon in a national context: economics, policy, and practice. Society and Natural Resources, 10(5), 433-451.
