Understanding the Impacts of Tropical Forest Fires

Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 21-X

  Cochrane, Mark A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346404205     PISSN: 00139157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. C. V. Barber and J. Schweithelm, Trial by Fire: Forest Fire and Forestry Policy in Indonesia's Era of Crisis and Reform (Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, 2000) 76 pp.; and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), M. A. Cochrane, Forest Fires in Latin America: Prevention, Assessment and Early Warning Experiences and Tools (UNEP, forthcoming 2001), 89 pp.
2. C. V. Barber and J. Schweithelm, Trial by Fire: Forest Fire and Forestry Policy in Indonesia's Era of Crisis and Reform (Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, 2000) 76 pp.; and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), M. A. Cochrane, Forest Fires in Latin America: Prevention, Assessment and Early Warning Experiences and Tools (UNEP, forthcoming 2001), 89 pp.
3. N. Price, "U.S. Officials: Major Environmental Disaster in Mexico," Associated Press, 5 June 1998.
4. S. Ferriss, "Slash-and-Burn Farming Threatens Forests," InfoLatina" 16 May 1999.
5. Price, note 2 above.
6. Ferriss, note 3 above.
7. G. Castilleja and P. Stedman-Edwards, After the Smoke Clears (Knoxville, Tenn.: Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Spring 1999).
8. M. A. Cairns, W. M. Hao, E. Alvarado, and P. Haggerty, "Carbon Emissions from Spring 1998 Fires in Tropical Mexico," in L. F. Neuenschwander, K. C. Ryan, G. E. Gollberg, and J. D. Greer, eds., Crossing the Millennium: Integrating Spatial Technologies and Ecological Principals for a New Age in Fire Management, Proceedings of The Joint Fire Science Conference and Workshop Volume 1, 15-17 June 1999. (Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho and the International Association of Wildland Fire, 1999), 242-7.
9. Ferriss, note 3 above.
10. M. A. Cochrane, "O Signiflcado das Queimadas na Amazônia," (The Importance of Amazonian Fires) Ciência Hoje 27 (2000): 26-31.
11. T. Stone and P. Lefebvre, "Using Multi-Temporal Satellite Data To Evaluate Selective Logging in Para, Brazil," International Journal of Remote Sensing 19, no. 13 (1998): 2517-26.
12. D. C. Nepstad et al., "Large-scale Impoverishment of Amazonian Forests by Logging and Fire," Nature 398, no. 6727 (1999): 505-8.
13. R. L. Sanford, J. Saldarriaga, K. Clark, C. Uhl, and R. Herrera, "Amazon Rainforest Fires," Science, 4 January 1985, 53-5; J. G. Saldarriaga and D. C. West, "Holocene Fires in the Northern Amazon Basin," Quaternary Research 26 (1986): 358-66; and B. Turcq et al., "Amazonia Rainforest Fires: A Lucustrine Record of 7,000 Years," Ambio 27 (1998): 139-42.
14. R. L. Sanford, J. Saldarriaga, K. Clark, C. Uhl, and R. Herrera, "Amazon Rainforest Fires," Science, 4 January 1985, 53-5; J. G. Saldarriaga and D. C. West, "Holocene Fires in the Northern Amazon Basin," Quaternary Research 26 (1986): 358-66; and B. Turcq et al., "Amazonia Rainforest Fires: A Lucustrine Record of 7,000 Years," Ambio 27 (1998): 139-42.
15. R. L. Sanford, J. Saldarriaga, K. Clark, C. Uhl, and R. Herrera, "Amazon Rainforest Fires," Science, 4 January 1985, 53-5; J. G. Saldarriaga and D. C. West, "Holocene Fires in the Northern Amazon Basin," Quaternary Research 26 (1986): 358-66; and B. Turcq et al., "Amazonia Rainforest Fires: A Lucustrine Record of 7,000 Years," Ambio 27 (1998): 139-42.
16. J. B. Kauffman and C. Uhl, "Interactions of Anthropogenic Activities, Fire, and Rain Forests in the Amazon Basin," in J. G. Goldammer, ed., Fire in the Tropical Biota (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1990), 117-34.
17. D. L. Peterson and K. C. Ryan, "Modeling Postfire Conifer Mortality for Long-Range Planning," Environmental Management 10 (1986): 797-808.
18. C. Uhl and J. B. Kauffman, "Deforestation, Fire Susceptibility, and Potential Tree Responses to Fire in the Eastern Amazon," Ecology 71 (1990): 437-49.
19. M. A. Cochrane and M. D. Schulze, "Forest Fires in the Brazilian Amazon," Conservation Biology 12. no. 5 (1998): 948-50.
20. M. A. Cochrane et al., "Positive Feedbacks in the Fire Dynamic of Closed Canopy Tropical Forests," Science, 11 June 1999, 1832-5.
21. M. A. Cochrane and M. D. Schulze, "Fire as a Recurrent Event in Tropical Forests of the Eastern Amazon: Effects on Forest Structure, Biomass, and Species Composition, Biotropica 31, no. 1 (1999): 2-16.
22. Uhl and Kauffman, note 15 above.
23. Ibid.
24. Cochrane and Schulze, note 16 above.
25. Cochrane et al., note 17 above.
26. Ibid.
27. W. D. Jackson, "Fire, Air, Water and Earth - An Elemental Ecology of Tasmania," Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia 3 (1968): 9-16.
28. J. K. Agee, Fire Ecology of Pacific Northwest Forests (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993), 493 pp.
29. Jackson, note 24 above.
30. M. A. Cochrane, "Synergistic Interactions Between Habitat Fragmentation and Fire in Evergreen Tropical Forests," Consecution Biology (forthcoming 2001).
31. M. A. Cochrane and W. F. Laurance, "Fire As a Large-Scale Edge Effect in Amazonian Forests," Journal of Tropical Ecology (forthcoming 2001); Cochrane et al., note 17 above; and Cochrane, note 27 above.
32. UNEP, note 1 above.
33. Ibid.; and Cochrane and Laurance, note 28 above.
34. C. Gascon, G. B. Williamson, and G. A. B. Fonseca, "Receding Edges and Vanishing Fragments," Science, 26 May 2000, 1356-8.
35. W. F. Laurance, et al., "The Future of the Brazilian Amazon: Development Trends and Deforestation," Science, 19 January 2001, 438-9.
36. M. Mueller-Dombois, Fire in Tropical Ecosystems, Proceedings of the Conference - Fire Regimes and Ecosystem Properties, GTR WO-26 (USDA, 1981): 137-76; and J. Shukla, C. Nobre, and P. Sellers, Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change," Science, 16 March 1990, 1322-5.
37. M. Mueller-Dombois, Fire in Tropical Ecosystems, Proceedings of the Conference - Fire Regimes and Ecosystem Properties, GTR WO-26 (USDA, 1981): 137-76; and J. Shukla, C. Nobre, and P. Sellers, Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change," Science, 16 March 1990, 1322-5.
38. 2 Emissions," in Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Cabon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Tenn., 2001) accessed at http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/emis/trc_glob.htm and at http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trend/emis/tre_amd.htm; and M. A. Cochrane, "Forest Fire, Deforestation and Landcover Change in the Brazilian Amazon," in L. F. Neuenschwander, K. C. Ryan, G. E. Gollberg, and J. D. Greer, eds., Crossing the Millennium: Integrating Spatial Technologies and Ecological Principals for a New Age in Fire Management, Proceedings from the Joint Fire Science Conference and Workshop Volume 1, 15-17 June 1999, (Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho and the International Association of Wildland Fire, 2000), 170-6.
39. 2 Emissions," in Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Cabon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Tenn., 2001) accessed at http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/emis/trc_glob.htm and at http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trend/emis/tre_amd.htm; and M. A. Cochrane, "Forest Fire, Deforestation and Landcover Change in the Brazilian Amazon," in L. F. Neuenschwander, K. C. Ryan, G. E. Gollberg, and J. D. Greer, eds., Crossing the Millennium: Integrating Spatial Technologies and Ecological Principals for a New Age in Fire Management, Proceedings from the Joint Fire Science Conference and Workshop Volume 1, 15-17 June 1999, (Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho and the International Association of Wildland Fire, 2000), 170-6.
40. UNEP, J. S. Levine, T. Bobbe, N. Ray, R. G. Witt, and A. Singh, Wildland Fires and the Environmem: A Global Synthesis, UNEP/DEIAEW/TR.99-1 (UNEP, 1999).
41. Barber and Schweithelm, note 1 above.
42. O. Kunii, "Basic Fact - Determining Downwind Exposures and Their Associated Health Effects, Assessment of Health Effects in Practice: A Case Study from the 1997 Forest Fires in Indonesia," Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events, Background papers from the World Health Organization, 6-9 October 1998, Lima, Peru.