Comment on "The incidence of fire in Amazonian forests with implications for REDD"

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6011, 2010, Pages

  Balch, Jennifer K ^a,b,c   Nepstad, Daniel C ^a   Brando, Paulo M ^a   Alencar, Ane ^a,d  

^a Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)   (Brazil)

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; DEFORESTATION; FIRE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BRAZIL; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FIRES; TREES; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 78650411679     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1194032     Document Type: Note

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