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Title: | Fire damage in seasonally flooded and upland forests of the Central Amazon |
Authors: | Resende, Angélica Faria de Nelson, Bruce Walker Flores, Bernardo Monteiro Almeida, Danilo Roberti Alves de |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Biotropica |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 46, Número 6, Pags. 643-646 |
Abstract: | Neighboring upland and nutrient-poor seasonally flooded Amazon forests were penetrated by a fire in 2009, providing a natural comparative experiment of fire damage for these widespread forest types. In upland, only 16 ± 10% (±2 SEM) of stems and 21 ± 8% of basal area were lost to fire, while seasonally flooded forest lost 59 ± 13% of stems and 57 ± 13% of basal area. Drier understory contributes to greater flammability. Much of the area occupied by seasonally flooded woody vegetation (>11.5 percent of the Amazon region) is vulnerable to fire due to high flammability and slow recovery. © 2014 The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1111/btp.12153 |
Appears in Collections: | Artigos |
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