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Ground fires as agents of mortality in a Central Amazonian forest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres
Affiliation:
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK (c.Peres@uea.ac.uk)
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Abstract

Although undisturbed tropical evergreen forests are often thought to be fire- resistant ecosystems due to lack of sufficiently dry fuel loads (Bond & van Wilgen 1996, Kauffman et al. 1988, Uhl et al. 1988), this myth is rapidly collapsing with the proliferation of recent forest fires throughout south-east Asia (Kinnard & O'Brien 1998, Leighton & Wirawan 1986), Central America (Anon. 1998a), and northern South America (Anon. 1998b) following unusually severe seasonal droughts.

Keywords

aboveground biomassAmazoniaground firesplant mortality
Type
SHORT COMMUNICATION
Information
Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , July 1999 , pp. 535 - 541
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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