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Forest fires and deforestation in the central Amazon: Effects of landscape and climate on spatial and temporal dynamics.
Mateus dos Reis,Paulo Maurício Lima de Alencastro Graça,Aurora Miho Yanai,Camila Julia Pacheco Ramos,Philip M. Fearnside +4 more
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In this article, the authors assessed the potential drivers of deforestation and forest fires in the central Brazilian Amazon and show that over a period of 31 years (1985-2015) forest fires occurred only in years of extreme drought induced by El Nino (1997, 2009 and 2015).About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Management.The article was published on 2021-06-15. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Deforestation & Amazon rainforest.read more
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Degradation of South American biomes: What to expect for the future?
TL;DR: The authors in this article used 18 years of numerous meteorological, biophysical and fire variables, aiming to understand the vegetation dynamics of the World Wide Fund for Nature biomes in the past, present and future (2021-2040) as a potential tool for land and resource management natures of South America.
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Environmental cost of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest: Controlling biocapacity deficit and renewable wastes for conserving forest resources
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated some critical economic issues related to deforestation in Brazil's rainforest, covering more than four decades of data and concluded that the rate of ecological footprints surpassed the nation's biocapacity indicator, causing an increase in the total carbon emissions level.
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Environmental cost of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest: Controlling biocapacity deficit and renewable wastes for conserving forest resources
TL;DR: In this article , the authors evaluated some critical economic issues related to deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, covering more than four decades of data, and concluded that the rate of ecological footprints surpassed the nation's biocapacity indicator, causing an increase in the total carbon emissions level.
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Deforestation and fires in the Brazilian Amazon from 2001 to 2020: Impacts on rainfall variability and land surface temperature.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed the effects of deforestation and fires in the Amazon biome from 2001 to 2020, considering their impacts on rainfall variability and LST, and found that deforested areas have been increasing in recent decades, and the precipitation decreased, while an increase is observed in the LST.
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Interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires during recent years in the Brazilian Amazonia
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Yadvinder Malhi,Nicolas Barbier,Nicolas Barbier,André Lima,Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro,Liana O. Anderson,Sassan Saatchi +7 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that anthropogenic forcing, such as land-use change, is decisive in determining the seasonality and annual patterns of fire occurrence in Amazonia and droughts can significantly increase the number of fires in the region even with decreased deforestation rates.
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A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests
Erika Berenguer,Joice Ferreira,Toby A. Gardner,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Plínio Barbosa de Camargo,Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri,Mariana Regina Durigan,Raimundo Cosme de Oliveira Junior,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira,Jos Barlow +9 more
TL;DR: Carbon loss and subsequent emissions due to human disturbances remain largely unaccounted for in greenhouse gas inventories, but by comparing estimates of depleted carbon stocks in disturbed forests with Brazilian government assessments of the total forest area annually disturbed in the Amazon, it is shown that these emissions could represent up to 40% of the carbon loss from deforestation in the region.
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Spatial and temporal patterns of Amazon rainfall. Consequences for the planning of agricultural occupation and the protection of primary forests.
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of past El Nino rainfall anomalies on the biodiversity of the natural savannahs within the Amazon region are discussed, and some data were obtained on the spatial expression of El-Nino events within the region, and it is argued that they are important for the success or failure of agricultural settlements; for the hazard of large-scale fire damage of the still existing primary forest vegetation; for functioning of this land cover as stock and sink of CO2, and for the likelihood that secondary forests on abandoned agricultural lands will have less biomass.
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Forest Understory Fire in the Brazilian Amazon in ENSO and Non-ENSO Years: Area Burned and Committed Carbon Emissions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors calculated the area of forest understory fires for the Brazilian Amazon region during an El Nino (1998) and a non-ENSO (1995) year based on forest fire scars mapped with satellite images for three locations in eastern and southern Amazon, where deforestation is concentrated.
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The roles and movements of actors in the deforestation of Brazilian Amazonia
TL;DR: The role and movement of actors in the deforesting of Brazil has been studied in this article, where a cadaster of land titles is used to enforce command and control and discourage movement to frontier.