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Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva1,2, Emilio F Moran3, James D A Millington4

  • 1Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48823, USA. rbicudo@unicamp.br.

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Soybean trade destination impacts deforestation. Municipalities with more domestic soybean production, linked to cattle and pasture expansion, showed higher forest cover loss in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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