Abstract The Amazonian clear-water igapós are floodplains mainly covered by forests with intermediate hydrochemical and edaphic conditions between the nutrient-rich várzea along white-water rivers and the oligotrophic igapós along black-water rivers. Earlier studies indicate the potential for...

Forest roads can potentially cause environmental impacts, especially related to water dynamics and sediment production. To identify critical areas for forest road allocation, we considered landscape criteria such as slope, erodibility (K), distance to accumulated water flow, and aspect. The...

This article is interested in the management of a natural forest. The main objective is the analysis of the efficiency of the exploitation model by individual transferable quotas with overlapping generations, capital, and monetary legacy. A general equilibrium model including some realities of...

Nutrient cycling is a key ecological process and governs by the litter decomposition. Litter decomposition process and nutrient-releasing pattern are affected by litter quality as well as climatic factors. Nutrients and stoichiometry are important for plant growth and species dynamics. However,...

Density forecasts of euro area inflation are a fundamental input for a medium-term oriented central bank, such as the European Central Bank (ECB). We show that a quantile regression forest, capturing a general non-linear relationship between euro area (headline and core) inflation and a large...

African countries are natural resource-rich. The continent has natural forests, homes of endemic biodiversity and various ores. This richness brings hope for sustainable and inclusive development in a continent whose population is rapidly growing. It also raises fears of environmental...

Protected areas (PAs), which restrict economic activities, are the leading land and marine policy for ecosystem conservation. Most contexts feature different types of protection that vary in their stringency of management. Using spatially detailed panel data for 1986-2018, we estimate PAs’...