@Article{AragăoAFRVWSSAABBDDGGMMMPS:2018:21CeDr,
author = "Arag{\~a}o, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de and Anderson, Liana
O. and Fonseca, Marisa G. and Rosan, Thais Michele and Vedovato,
Laura Barbosa and Wagner, Fabien Hubert and Silva, Camila
Val{\'e}ria de Jesus and Silva J{\'u}nior, Celso Henrique Leite
and Arai, Egidio and Aguiar, Ana Paula Dutra de and Barlow, Jos
and Berenguer, Erika and Deeter, Merritt N. and Domingues, Lucas
Gatti and Gatti, Luciana Vanni and Gloor, Manuel and Malhi,
Yadvinder and Marengo, Jos{\'e} A. and Miller, John B. and
Phillips, Oliver L. and Saatchi, Sassan",
affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Centro
Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais
(CEMADEN)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}
and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and
{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
(INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and
{Lancaster University} and {University of Oxford} and 8National
Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry and
Observations Laboratory and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
(INPE)} and {University of Leeds} and {University of Oxford} and
{Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais
(CEMADEN)} and NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/Global
Monitoring Division, and Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Science (CIRES) and {University of Leeds} and Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology",
title = "21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of
Amazon deforestation carbon emissions",
journal = "Nature Communications",
year = "2018",
volume = "9",
number = "1",
pages = "e536",
month = "Dec.",
abstract = "Tropical carbon emissions are largely derived from direct forest
clearing processes. Yet, emissions from drought-induced forest
fires are, usually, not included in national-level carbon emission
inventories. Here we examine Brazilian Amazon drought impacts on
fire incidence and associated forest fire carbon emissions over
the period 20032015. We show that despite a 76% decline in
deforestation rates over the past 13 years, fire incidence
increased by 36% during the 2015 drought compared to the preceding
12 years. The 2015 drought had the largest ever ratio of active
fire counts to deforestation, with active fires occurring over an
area of 799,293 km2. Gross emissions from forest fires (989 ± 504
Tg CO2 year\−1 ) alone are more than half as great as those
from old-growth forest deforestation during drought years. We
conclude that carbon emission inventories intended for accounting
and developing policies need to take account of substantial forest
fire emissions not associated to the deforestation process.",
doi = "10.1038/s41467-017-02771-y",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02771-y",
issn = "2041-1723",
language = "en",
targetfile = "aragao_21st.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "03 jun. 2024"
}