Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southeastern Amazonia

Anthropogenic understory fires affect large areas of tropical forest, particularly during severe droughts. Yet, the mechanisms that control tropical forests' susceptibility to fire remain ambiguous. We tested the widely accepted hypothesis that Amazon forest fires increase susceptibility to fur...

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Published in:	Global change biology Vol. 14; no. 10; pp. 2276 - 2287
Main Authors:	BALCH, JENNIFER K, NEPSTAD, DANIEL C, BRANDO, PAULO M, CURRAN, LISA M, PORTELA, OSVALDO, OSWALDO JR, LEFEBVRE, PAUL
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell
Subjects:	Amazonia Animal and plant ecology Animal, plant and microbial ecology Anthropogenic factors Biological and medical sciences Brazilian Amazon burning Canopies carbon carbon emissions Climate change Drought Emissions Emissions control Feedback feedbacks fire ecology fire spread Flammability Forest & brush fires Forest and land fires forest decline Forest fires forest-savanna transitions Forests fuel Fuels fuels (fire ecology) Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General aspects Human influences large-scale experimental burns Leaf litter Leaves Mato Grosso transitional forests Microclimate Mortality Phytopathology. Animal pests. Plant and forest protection plant litter prediction Savannahs shrublands tree mortality Treefall trees Tropical forests tropical wildfires Understory Vapor pressure Vegetation Weather damages. Fires South America Brazil Amazon Basin America Amazonia Savannah Mato Grosso transitional forests large-scale experimental burns Tropical zone Emission Brazilian Amazon feedbacks Tropical forest Experimental study Climatic zone Carbon tropical wildfires Fire ecology Feedback forest-savanna transitions Fires Fuel tropical forests Transition Amazonia Vegetation fire carbon emissions Large scale
ISSN:	1354-1013, 1365-2486
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