Fire damage in seasonally flooded and upland forests of the Central Amazon
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 seasona...
| Autor principal: | Resende, Angélica Faria de |
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| Outros Autores: | Nelson, Bruce Walker, Flores, Bernardo Monteiro, Almeida, Danilo Roberti Alves de |
| Grau: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | English |
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Biotropica
2020
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https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/17659 |
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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. |