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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Aragao LEOC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5811599 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180213 1
Tropical carbon emissions are largely derived from direct forest clearing processes. Yet, emissions from drought-induced forest fires are, usually, not included in national-level carbon emission inventories. Here we examine Brazilian Amazon drought impacts on fire incidence and associated forest fire carbon emissions over the period 2003-2015. We show that despite a 76% decline in deforestation rates over the past 13 years, fire incidence increased by 36% during the 2015 drought compared to the ...[more]