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2025

Simple ecological indicators benchmark regeneration success of Amazonian forests. Commun Earth Environ 6, 269. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02246-9 

2024

Ecological integrity of tropical secondary forests: concepts and indicators. Biol. Rev. 98, 662–676. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12924  

2023

Governance and policy constraints of natural forest regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon. Restoration Ecology. Vol. 33, No. 1, e14272. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14272 

2022

National policies encounter municipal realities: A critical analysis of the outcomes of the List of Priority Municipalities in curbing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. World Development. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X22001942

Protegemos quando valorizamos: história da legislação florestal brasileira. Estudos Avançados, 36(106), Dossiê Eleições / Governança Florestal https://doi.org/10.1590/s0103-4014.2022.36106.011 

What’s governance got to do with it? Examining the relationship between governance and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. PLOS ONE 17, e0269729. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269729  

The intertemporal governance challenges of Brazil’s Amazon: managing soybean expansion, deforestation rates, and urban floods. Sustain. Sci. 18, 43–58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01149-4  

2019

Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time. Nature Ecology & Evololution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0882-6 

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau3114

2016

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16512 

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501639

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501639

2015

Amazon Rain Forest Succession: Stochasticity or Land-Use Legacy? BioScience. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biv108 

Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12435 

2014

Shifts in Dominance and Species Assemblages over Two Decades in Alternative Successions in Central Amazonia. Biotropica. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12143 

Dynamics and trajectories of secondary succession in Central Amazonia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Naturais. Florestas secundárias tropicais: ecologia e importância em paisagens antrópicas. https://moodle.ufsc.br/pluginfile.php/1935343/mod_resource/content/1/Dinam%20trajet%20suc%20sec%20Am_Massoca_EmGoeldi_2012.pdf

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Tackling Deforestation at Subnational Scales in the Brazilian Amazon: Diverse municipalities, Agents, and the Struggle for Collective Action in a Moving Frontier (Doctoral Dissertation), School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, 2020. Available here. 

Ocupação humana e reflexos sobre a cobertura florestal em um assentamento rural na Amazônia central (Master Thesis), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências de Florestas Tropicais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, 2010. Available here.