Landscape fragmentation, severe drought, and the new Amazon forest fire regime

Changes in weather and land use are transforming the spatial and temporal characteristics of fire regimes in Amazonia, with important effects on the functioning of dense (i.e., closed-canopy), open-canopy, and transitional forests across the Basin. To quantify, document, and describe the characteris...

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Published in:	Ecological applications Vol. 25; no. 6; pp. 1493 - 1505
Main Authors:	Alencar, Ane A, Brando, Paulo M, Asner, Gregory P, Putz, Francis E
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Ecological Society of America 01.09.2015
Subjects:	Amazon Amazonia basins burning climate change Conservation of Natural Resources Deforestation drought Droughts dry season El Nino ENSO Fire ecology fire frequency fire history fire interval fire regime Fire regimes Fire scars fire size Fires flammability Forest canopy Forest cover Forest fires forest fragmentation forest types Forests Grassland fires habitat fragmentation land use land use change Models, Theoretical rain seasonality temporal variation Time Factors Wildfire seasons Amazonia
ISSN:	1051-0761, 1939-5582
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