Overlooking vegetation loss outside forests imperils the Brazilian Cerrado and other non-forest biomes

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. [email protected].
• ² Remote Sensing Applied to Tropical Environments Group, Manchester, UK. [email protected].
• ³ Remote Sensing Applied to Tropical Environments Group, Manchester, UK.
• ⁴ WeForest, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁵ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Nova Xavantina, Brazil.
• ⁶ School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
• ⁷ AMAP (Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations), CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
• ⁸ Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ⁹ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Caceres, Brazil.
• ¹⁰ WWF-Brasil, Brasília, Brazil.
• ¹¹ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade, Ecologia e Conservação, Núcleo de Estudos Ambientais, Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Porto Nacional, Brazil.
• ¹² A Vida no Cerrado (AVINC), Brasília, Brazil.
• ¹³ Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Brasília, Brazil.
• ¹⁴ General Coordination of Earth Science (CGCT), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil.
• ¹⁵ National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), São José dos Campos, Brazil.
• ¹⁶ Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division (DIOTG), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil.
• ¹⁷ Departamento de Geografia, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil.
• ¹⁸ Department of Ecology, University of Brasília (UnB) and Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change - Rede Clima, Brasília, Brazil.
• ¹⁹ Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ²⁰ NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
• ²¹ Department of Ecology, Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, Brazil.
• ²² INCT in Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation, Goiânia, Brazil.
• ²³ Institute of Socioenvironmental Studies, Remote Sensing and GIS Lab, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
• ²⁴ Agricultural Department, University of Taubaté (UNITAU), Taubaté, Brazil.
• ²⁵ Amazon Spatial Coordination (COEAM) from National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Belém, Brazil.
• ²⁶ Instituto de Estudos Avançados - Brazilian Airforce, São José dos Campos, Brazil.
• ²⁷ Tropical Diversity, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ²⁸ School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ²⁹ Department of Forest Engineering, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Lages, Brazil.
• ³⁰ International Institute for Sustainability (IIS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• ³¹ Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA.
• ³² Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG), Palmeiras de Goiás, Brazil.
• ³³ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.
• ³⁴ Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ³⁵ The Nature Conservancy, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ³⁶ Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
• ³⁷ Embrapa Cerrados, Planaltina, Brazil.
• ³⁸ Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
• ³⁹ Department of Environmental Sciences, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil.
• ⁴⁰ Graduate Program in Biodiversity Conservation, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil.