Land cover change interacts with drought severity to change fire regimes in Western Amazonia

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1323-1340

  Gutiérrez Velez, Victor H ^a,b   Uriarte, María ^c   Defries, Ruth ^c   Pinedo Vasquez, Miguel ^a,b   Fernandes, Katia ^d   Ceccato, Pietro ^d   Baethgen, Walter ^d   Padoch, Christine ^b  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^d Lamont Campus   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Bayesian statistical modeling; Burn scar mapping; Climate change; Fire occurrence and spread; INLA; Landscape configuration; MODIS; Oil palm plantations; Remote sensing by satellite; Tropical secondary forests; Vegetation regrowth

Indexed keywords

BURNING; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST COVER; FOREST FIRE; LAND COVER; MODIS; PLANTATION; REGROWTH; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TREE; VEGETATION;

AMAZONAS [PERU]; AMAZONIA; PERU;

ELAEIS;

AGRICULTURE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROUGHT; FIRE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; PERU; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; DROUGHTS; FIRES; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERU;

EID: 84907011551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2101.1     Document Type: Article

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