Large-scale impoverishment of amazonian forests by logging and fire

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6727, 1999, Pages 505-508

  Nepstad, Daniel C ^a,b   Veríssimo, Adalberto ^c   Alencar, Ane ^b   Nobre, Carlos ^d   Lima, Eirivelthon ^c   Lefebvre, Paul ^a,b   Schlesinger, Peter ^a   Potter, Christopher ^e   Moutinho, Paulo ^b   Mendoza, Elsa ^b,f   Cochrane, Mark ^a,b,c   Brooks, Vanessa ^e  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c IMAZON   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ACRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

CARBON CYCLE; DEFORESTATION; FIRE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LOGGING;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; FOREST; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0039967047     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19066     Document Type: Article

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