Fire damage in seasonally flooded and upland forests of the Central Amazon

Biotropica

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 643-646

  de Resende, Angélica F ^a   Nelson, Bruce W ^a   Flores, Bernardo M ^b   de Almeida, Danilo R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

igap ; Flammability; Forest structure; Litter layer; Relative humidity; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911494607     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12153     Document Type: Article

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