Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 395-407

  Nepstad, Daniel ^a,b   Carvalho, Georgia ^a,b   Barros, Ana Cristina ^b   Alencar, Ane ^b   Capobianco, João Paulo ^c   Bishop, Josh ^d   Moutinho, Paulo ^b   Lefebvre, Paul ^a   Silva Jr , Urbano Lopes ^b   Prins, Elaine ^e  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Socioambiental   (Brazil)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^e NOAA/NESDIS/ORA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Deforestation; Development policy; Fire; Logging; Positive feedback; Roads; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DEFORESTATION; FEEDBACK; FORESTRY; INVESTMENTS; PAVEMENTS;

FEEDBACK LOOPS;

FIRE PROTECTION;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

FOREST MANAGEMENT;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0035575599     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(01)00511-4     Document Type: Article

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