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Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests

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Daniel C. Nepstad¹, Georgia O. Carvalho¹, Ana Cristina Barros, Ane Alencar, João Paulo Capobianco, Josh Bishop², Paulo Moutinho, Paul Lefebvre¹, Urbano Lopes da Silva, E. M. Prins³ - Show less +6 more•Institutions (3)

Woods Hole Research Center¹, International Institute of Minnesota², National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration³

01 Dec 2001-Forest Ecology and Management

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that paving, recuperate or constructing 6245 km of roads in the Amazon may have the opposite effect of increasing forest fire in the region, and that road paving will accelerate deforestation, logging, forest fire, smoke-related illness, and displacement of small-scale farmers.

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