Increased damage from fires in logged forests during droughts caused by El Niño

By F. Siegert, G. Ruecker, A. Hinrichs, A. Hoffmann. Nature, 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Mechanics of Materials, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Bark traits and life-history strategies of tropical dry- and moist forest trees (2014, background): “…extreme droughts (Van Nieuwstadt & Sheil 2005), but the frequency of tropical forest fires has increased dramatically over the past decades, due to increased slash-and-burn agriculture, and the synergistic effects of logging and major droughts (Siegert et al. 2001; Aragao & Shimabukuro 2010).”
Morphological correlates of fire-induced tree mortality in a central Amazonian forest (2003, background): “Furthermore, given the frequency of the current El Niño-mediated fire regime in tropical forests (Goldammer 1999, Nepstad et al. 1999, Siegert et al. 2001), post-burn saplings and juveniles are unlikely to have enough time to grow into a size class that will enable them to survive a recurrent burn.”
Modeling population viability of local proboscis monkey Nasalis larvatus populations: conservation implications (2012, background): “Currently, there are no data available on the effect the fires have on the survival and reproduction of proboscis monkeys, even though they live in the highest fire risk habitat in Borneo (Siegert et al. 2001).”
Linking future ecosystem services and future human well-being (2006, background): “Although land clearing by burning is a traditional practice in this part of the world, the vast haze during the severe El Niño of 1997–1998, which speculatively could be evidence of anthropogenic climate change (Trenberth and Hoar 1996), was of unprecedented size (Siegert et al. 2001).”
Fire, demography and the persistence of siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus: Hylobatidae) in a Sumatran rainforest (2003, background): “During 1997–98, fires in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on Borneo damaged 2.9 million ha of concession and conservation forests (Siegert et al., 2001).”
Diversity and community composition of butterflies and odonates in an ENSO-induced fire affected habitat mosaic: a case study from East Kalimantan, Indonesia (2004, neutral): “1999, Siegert et al. 2001).”
Drought, fire and tree survival in a Borneo rain forest, East Kalimantan, Indonesia (2005, neutral): “(2001), Slik (2001) and van Nieuwstadt (2002).”
Characterizing interannual variations in global fire calendar using data from Earth observing satellites (2005, background): “…occur on annual basis, but unusually large fire events occur during El Niño events, particularly the devastating fire activity of the extreme 1982–1983 and 1997–1998 ENSO episodes (Malingreau et al., 1985; Wooster et al., 1998; Legg & Laumonier, 1999; Wooster & Strub, 2000; Siegert et al., 2001).”
Effects of Single and Recurrent Wildfires on Fruit Production and Large Vertebrate Abundance in a Central Amazonian Forest (2006, background): “…by forest fragmentation (Cochrane 2001b; Cochrane and Laurance 2002) and selective logging (Uhl and Buschbacher 1985; Nepstad et al. 1999; Siegert et al. 2001), and initial low-intensity surface fires can lead to more severe recurrent fires in subsequent dry seasons (Cochrane et al.…”
Machine Learning for the Geosciences: Challenges and Opportunities (2017, background): “, periodic changes in the sea surface temperature over eastern Pacific Ocean—also known as the El NiñoSouthern Oscillation (ENSO)—and their impact on several terrestrial events such as floods, droughts, and forest fires [28], [29].”
Examining protected area effectiveness in Sumatra: importance of regulations governing unprotected lands (2012, background): “Logging has been shown to increase fire vulnerability (Nepstad et al. 1999; Siegert et al. 2001), and to impart major effects on canopy tree regeneration and vertebrates (Curran & Leighton 2000; Curran & Webb 2000).”
Biodiversity and Conservation of Tropical Peat Swamp Forests (2011, background): “Peat forest that has been subjected to one fire has a high probability of burning again because of the accumulation of unburned dead biomass and the presence of fire-prone regrowth vegetation that can act as fuel for the next fire (Siegert et al. 2001, Page et al. 2009).”
Tropical deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol. An editorial essay (2005, background): “When the 1997–1998 El Niño episode provoked severe droughts in the Amazon and Indonesia, large areas of tropical forest burned, releasing 0.2 to 0.4 Pg of carbon to the atmosphere (de Mendonça et al., 2004; Siegert et al., 2001; Page et al., 2002; Table I).”