Depopulation of rural landscapes exacerbates fire activity in the western Amazon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages 21546-21550

  Uriarte, María ^a   Pinedo Vasquez, Miquel ^a   DeFries, Ruth S ^a   Fernandes, Katia ^b   Gutierrez Velez, Victor ^a   Baethgen, Walter E ^b   Padoch, Christine ^c,d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^d NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural development; Fire management; Rural migration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURN SCAR; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DROUGHT; FIRE; FLAMMABILITY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MIGRATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GEOGRAPHY; PERU; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84871832350     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215567110     Document Type: Article

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