Landscape fragmentation, severe drought, and the new Amazon forest fire regime

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1493-1505

  Alencar, Ane A ^a   Brando, Paulo M ^a,b   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Putz, Francis E ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Climate change; ENSO; Fire frequency; Fire history; Fire interval; Fire regime; Fire size; Forest fires; Forest fragmentation; Land use change; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; FRAGMENTATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONIA;

DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; FOREST; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DROUGHTS; FIRES; FORESTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84941253780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1528.1     Document Type: Article

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