Fire in Amazonian selectively logged rain forest and the potential for fire reduction

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 713-725

  Holdsworth, Andrew R ^a,b,d   Uhl, Christopher ^c  

^a Inst Homen Meio Ambiente Amazonia   (Brazil)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Institute for the Study of Planet Earth   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonian rain forest and selective logging; Fire damage and tree mortality; Fire reduction in selectively logged forests; Fire susceptibility, effects of logging methods on; Forest fragmentation, fire induced; Gap size and fuel moisture in logged forests; Hemispheric canopy photography; Photon flux density and forest fuel moisture; Tree and vine liana regeneration after fire

Indexed keywords

LOGGING; RAINFOREST; SELECTIVE LOGGING;

EID: 0030613865     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0713:FIASLR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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