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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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Fire disturbance in Amazonian blackwater floodplain forests
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relationship between the tropical Pacific Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and water levels for 1968-2010 and found that SOI explained 32% of the variation in annual low water level.
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Real-time simultaneous detection of volcanic Hg and SO2 at La Fossa Crater, Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Sicily)
Alessandro Aiuppa,Alessandro Aiuppa,Emanuela Rita Bagnato,M.L.I. Witt,Tamsin A. Mather,Francesco Parello,David M. Pyle,R.S. Martin +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the first real-time simultaneous measurement of Hg and SO2 in a volcanic plume, based on Lumex and MultiGAS techniques, respectively.
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Deforestation and International Economic Development Projects in Brazilian Amazonia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that high-level decisions make the projects iwevmible before environmental and land capability studies are made, or even in spite of negative indications that are already known.
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Floodplains as an Achilles' heel of Amazonian forest resilience.
Bernardo M. Flores,Bernardo M. Flores,Milena Holmgren,Chi Xu,Egbert H. van Nes,Catarina C. Jakovac,Rita C.G. Mesquita,Marten Scheffer +7 more
TL;DR: It is revealed that if the Amazon region becomes drier as predicted, forests may collapse first on seasonally inundated areas due to their vulnerability to wildfires, suggesting the need for a strategic fire management plan to strengthen Amazonian forest resilience in the face of climate change.
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Evaluating spectral indices for burned area discrimination using MODIS/ASTER (MASTER) airborne simulator data
TL;DR: In this article, high spatial and spectral resolution MODIS/ASTER (MASTER) airborne simulator data acquired over three 2007 southern California burns were used to evaluate the sensitivity of different spectral indices at discriminating burned land shortly after a fire.