Fire as a Recurrent Event in Tropical Forests of the Eastern Amazon: Effects on Forest Structure, Biomass, and Species Composition<sup>1</sup>

A. Cochrane, Mark; Schulze, Mark

doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.1999.tb00112.x

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Fire as a Recurrent Event in Tropical Forests of the Eastern Amazon: Effects on Forest Structure, Biomass, and Species Composition1

Published in Biotropica • Mar 1, 1999

Authors:

Mark A. Cochrane

Mark Schulze

Abstract

ABSTRACT The effects of fire on forest structure and composition were studied in a severely fire‐impacted landscape in the eastern Amazon. Extensive sampling of area forests was used to compare structure and compositional differences between burned and unburned forest stands. Burned forests were ext...

Subject

Understory

Environmental science

Canopy

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