Temporal variability of forest fires in eastern Amazonia

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2397-2412

  Alencar, Ane ^a,b   Asner, Gregory P ^c   Knapp, David ^c   Zarin, Daniel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazilian Amazon; Burn scar; El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Fire regime; Forest degradation; Forest fires; Positive feedback; Spectral mixture analysis; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; LANDSAT; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME; TREE;

BRAZIL; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; RAIN; SPACECRAFT; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 80053964183     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1168.1     Document Type: Article

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