Carbon emissions from fires in tropical and subtropical ecosystems

GIGLIO, LOUIS; VAN DER WERF, GUIDO R.; RANDERSON, JAMES T.; Collatz, G James

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00604.x

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Carbon emissions from fires in tropical and subtropical ecosystems

Author(s): GUIDO R. VAN DER WERF , JAMES T. RANDERSON , G. JAMES COLLATZ , LOUIS GIGLIO

Publication date Created: April 2003

Publication date (Print): April 2003

Journal: Global Change Biology

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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The incidence and importance of fire in the Amazon have increased substantially during the past decade, but the effects of this disturbance force are still poorly understood. The forest fire dynamics in two regions of the eastern Amazon were studied. Accidental fires have affected nearly 50 percent of the remaining forests and have caused more deforestation than has intentional clearing in recent years. Forest fires create positive feedbacks in future fire susceptibility, fuel loading, and fire intensity. Unless current land use and fire use practices are changed, fire has the potential to transform large areas of tropical forest into scrub or savanna.