Dynamics, patterns and causes of fires in northwestern amazonia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Armenteras, Dolors ^a   Retana, Javier ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROP; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM FIRE HISTORY; INCIDENCE; PASTURE; POPULATION; SOUTH AMERICA; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; CATTLE; COLOMBIA; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; TREE;

BOS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CATTLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOMBIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; RIVERS; TREES;

EID: 84859844262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035288     Document Type: Article

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