Nature Communications (Feb 2018)
21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions
- Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,
- Liana O. Anderson,
- Marisa G. Fonseca,
- Thais M. Rosan,
- Laura B. Vedovato,
- Fabien H. Wagner,
- Camila V. J. Silva,
- Celso H. L. Silva Junior,
- Egidio Arai,
- Ana P. Aguiar,
- Jos Barlow,
- Erika Berenguer,
- Merritt N. Deeter,
- Lucas G. Domingues,
- Luciana Gatti,
- Manuel Gloor,
- Yadvinder Malhi,
- Jose A. Marengo,
- John B. Miller,
- Oliver L. Phillips,
- Sassan Saatchi
Affiliations
- Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
- Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research
- Liana O. Anderson
- National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters - Cemaden (CEMADEN)
- Marisa G. Fonseca
- Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research
- Thais M. Rosan
- Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research
- Laura B. Vedovato
- Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research
- Fabien H. Wagner
- Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research
- Camila V. J. Silva
- Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research
- Celso H. L. Silva Junior
- Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research
- Egidio Arai
- Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research
- Ana P. Aguiar
- Earth Systems Sciences Center, National Institute for Space Research
- Jos Barlow
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
- Erika Berenguer
- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
- Merritt N. Deeter
- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry and Observations Laboratory
- Lucas G. Domingues
- Earth Systems Sciences Center, National Institute for Space Research
- Luciana Gatti
- Earth Systems Sciences Center, National Institute for Space Research
- Manuel Gloor
- School of Geography, University of Leeds
- Yadvinder Malhi
- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
- Jose A. Marengo
- National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters - Cemaden (CEMADEN)
- John B. Miller
- NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/Global Monitoring Division, and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder
- Oliver L. Phillips
- School of Geography, University of Leeds
- Sassan Saatchi
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02771-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Deforestation carbon emissions from the Brazilian Amazon have declined steeply, but how much drought-induced forest fire emissions add to this process is still unclear. Here the authors show that gross emissions from forest fires are more than half as great as those from deforestation during drought years.
