Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions

By P. Brando, Jennifer K. Balch, Daniel C. Nepstad, Douglas C. Morton, Francis E. Putz, Michael T. Coe, D. Silvério, M. Macedo, Eric Davidson, C. Nóbrega and 2 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains (2014, background): “A large fraction of canopy trees can die during these episodes, opening up the forests to invasion by flammable grasses (23).”
Interacting tipping elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming (2020, background): “The Amazon rainforest is not only directly impacted by anthropogenic climate change for instance through severe droughts or heat waves (Marengo et al., 2015; Brando et al., 2014), but also by deforestation and fire (Malhi et al.”
Climate change impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean and their implications for development (2017, background): “Recent evidence from a large-scale and long-term experiment suggests that the feedbacks between climatic extreme events such as droughts and forest fires increase the likelihood of an Amazon dieback (Brando et al. 2014).”
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