Soil quality, agriculture settlement and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon • Marcia C. Castro, Harvard University

Contrasting colonist and indigenous impacts on Amazonian forests • Flora Lu, University of California, Santa Cruz ; Clark L. Gray, Duke University ; Carlos Mena, Universidad San Francisco de Quito ; Christine M. Erlien, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Jason Bremner, Population Reference Bureau (PRB) ; Stephen J. Walsh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Analysis of demographic and socio-economic factors as drivers of deforestation in the Ribeira do Iguape river basin, Brazilian Atlantic Forest: a GIS integration of census and remote sensing data • Humberto P Alves, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)