Impacts of fire on forest biomass dynamics at the Southern Amazon edge
dc.contributor.author | Nogueira, DS | |
dc.contributor.author | Marimon, BS | |
dc.contributor.author | Marimon-Junior, BH | |
dc.contributor.author | Oliveira, EA | |
dc.contributor.author | Morandi, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Reis, SM | |
dc.contributor.author | Elias, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Neves, EC | |
dc.contributor.author | Feldpausch, TR | |
dc.contributor.author | Lloyd, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Phillips, OL | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-15T09:09:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-07-19 | |
dc.description.abstract | Over recent decades, biomass gains in remaining old-growth Amazonia forests have declined due to environmental change. Amazonia's huge size and complexity makes understanding these changes, drivers, and consequences very challenging. Here, using a network of permanent monitoring plots at the Amazon-Cerrado transition, we quantify recent biomass carbon changes and explore their environmental drivers. Our study area covers 30 plots of upland and riparian forests sampled at least twice between 1996 and 2016 and subject to various levels of fire and drought. Using these plots, we aimed to: (1) estimate the long-term biomass change rate; (2) determine the extent to which forest changes are influenced by forest type; and (3) assess the threat to forests from ongoing environmental change. Overall, there was no net change in biomass, but there was clear variation among different forest types. Burning occurred at least once in 8 of the 12 riparian forests, while only 1 of the 18 upland forests burned, resulting in losses of carbon in burned riparian forests. Net biomass gains prevailed among other riparian and upland forests throughout Amazonia. Our results reveal an unanticipated vulnerability of riparian forests to fire, likely aggravated by drought, and threatening ecosystem conservation at the Amazon southern margins. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | CNPq | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The British Council Newton Fund | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Royal Society– Wolfson Research Merit Award | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Research Council (ERC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 19 July 2019 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0376892919000110 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | PELD/CNPq 403725/2012-7 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | PELD/CNPq 41244/2016-5 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | (BSM) PPBIO-CNPq 457602/2012-0 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | CAPES PVE project 177/2012 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 275556724 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/NE/D005590/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/39197 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) | en_GB |
dc.rights | © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2019 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | biomass loss | en_GB |
dc.subject | burned forest | en_GB |
dc.subject | carbon stocks | en_GB |
dc.subject | climate change | en_GB |
dc.subject | drought sensitivity | en_GB |
dc.title | Impacts of fire on forest biomass dynamics at the Southern Amazon edge | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-15T09:09:47Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0376-8929 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Environmental Conservation | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-05-22 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-05-22 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-10-15T09:01:26Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-10-15T09:09:51Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.depositException | publishedGoldOA | |
refterms.depositExceptionExplanation | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892919000110 |
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