Measuring the Natural Capital of Amazonian forests: a case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil

We propose an innovative approach that links nature and people to assess the natural capital of tropical forests in the Amazon, addressing both ecosystem functions and services, based mainly on primary data. Our study location is a protected area inside Eastern Amazon forest, where we defined 14 sampling points and analyzed ten biophysical components, which encompass the maintenance of standing forests (nature to itself) and the provision of ecosystem services (nature to people). Five components were used to assess ecosystem functions and five components were used to assess ecosystem services. In the two files we provide the two supplementary material files associated to the submitted manuscript. Supplementary material 1 refers to the full dataset used in the study.Supplementary material 2 refers to the supplementary figures for the calculation of insubstitutability.