@Article{LopesSBRCNASCSSGA:2021:DrWiIm,
               author = "Lopes, Aline Pontes and Silva, Camila V. J. and Barlow, Jos and 
                         Rinc{\'o}n, Lorena M. and Campanharo, Wesley Augusto and Nunes, 
                         C{\'a}ssio A. and Almeida, Catherine Torres de and Silva 
                         J{\'u}nior, Celso Henrique Leite and Cassol, Henrique 
                         Lu{\'{\i}}s Godinho and Silva, Ricardo Dal'Agnol da and Stark, 
                         Scott C. and Gra{\c{c}}a, Paulo M. L. A. and Arag{\~a}o, Luiz 
                         Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Lancaster 
                         Environment Centre} and {Lancaster Environment Centre} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amaz{\^o}nia (INPA)} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA)} 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 
                         {Michigan State University} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         da Amaz{\^o}nia (INPA)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Drought-driven wildfire impacts on structure and dynamics in a wet 
                         Central Amazonian forest",
              journal = "Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences",
                 year = "2021",
               volume = "288",
               number = "1951",
                pages = "e20210094",
                month = "May",
             keywords = "biomass, demography, fire, forest degradation, growth, 
                         morphological traits.",
             abstract = "While the climate and human-induced forest degradation is 
                         increasing in the Amazon, fire impacts on forest dynamics remain 
                         understudied in the wetter regions of the basin, which are 
                         susceptible to large wildfires only during extreme droughts. To 
                         address this gap, we installed burned and unburned plots 
                         immediately after a wildfire in the northern Purus-Madeira 
                         (Central Amazon) during the 2015 El-Niņo. We measured all 
                         individuals with diameter of 10 cm or more at breast height and 
                         conducted recensuses to track the demographic drivers of biomass 
                         change over 3 years. We also assessed how stem-level growth and 
                         mortality were influenced by fire intensity (proxied by char 
                         height) and tree morphological traits (size and wood density). 
                         Overall, the burned forest lost 27.3% of stem density and 12.8% of 
                         biomass, concentrated in small and medium trees. Mortality drove 
                         these losses in the first 2 years and recruitment decreased in the 
                         third year. The fire increased growth in lower wood density and 
                         larger sized trees, while char height had transitory strong 
                         effects increasing tree mortality. Our findings suggest that fire 
                         impacts are weaker in the wetter Amazon. Here, trees of greater 
                         sizes and higher wood densities may confer a margin of fire 
                         resistance; however, this may not extend to higher intensity fires 
                         arising from climate change.",
                  doi = "10.1098/rspb.2021.0094",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0094",
                 issn = "0962-8452",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "lopes_drought.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}