Wildfires in bamboo-dominated Amazonian forest: Impacts on above-ground biomass and biodiversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Barlow, Jos ^a   Silveira, Juliana M ^b   Mestre, Luiz A M ^c,d   Andrade, Rafael B ^c   Camacho D'Andrea, Gabriela ^c   Louzada, Julio ^b   Vaz de Mello, Fernando Z ^e   Numata, Izaya ^c   Lacau, Sébastien ^f   Cochrane, Mark A ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO SUDOESTE DA BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FIRE ECOLOGY; FOGO SELVAGEM; FOREST STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; ANT; BEETLE; BIRD; FIRE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SASA; TELECOMMUNICATION; TREE;

AVES; COLEOPTERA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIRDS; BRAZIL; FIRES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SASA; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TREES;

EID: 84857944018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033373     Document Type: Article

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