Amazon wildfires: Scenes from a foreseeable disaster

Alencar, 2006, Forest understory fire in the Brazilian Amazon in ENSO and non-ENSO years: area burned and committed carbon emissions, Earth Interact., 10, 1, 10.1175/EI150.1 Andrade, 2014, Tropical forest fires and biodiversity: dung beetle community and biomass responses in a northern Brazilian Amazon forest, J. Insect Conserv., 18, 1097, 10.1007/s10841-014-9719-4 Andrade, 2017, The impacts of recurrent fires on diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in a south-eastern Amazon forest, J. Trop. Ecol., 33, 22, 10.1017/S0266467416000559 Aragão, 2018, 21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions, Nat. Commun., 9, 1, 10.1038/s41467-017-02771-y Azevedo-Ramos, 2018, No man’s land in the Brazilian Amazon: could undesignated public forests slow Amazon deforestation?, Land Use Policy, 73, 125, 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.01.005 Barlow, 2004, Avifaunal responses to single and recurrent wildfires in Amazonian forests, Ecol. Appl., 14, 1358, 10.1890/03-5077 Barlow, 2003, Morphological correlates of fire-induced tree mortality in a central Amazonian forest, J. Trop. Ecol., 19, 291, 10.1017/S0266467403003328 Barlow, 2016, Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation, Nature, 535, 144, 10.1038/nature18326 Barlow, 2020, Clarifying Amazonia’s burning crisis, Glob. Chang. Biol., 26, 319, 10.1111/gcb.14872 Brando, 2008, Drought effects on litterfall, wood production and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: results of a throughfall reduction experiment, Philos. Trans. Biol. Sci., 363, 1839, 10.1098/rstb.2007.0031 Brando, 2012, Fire‐induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior, Glob. Chang. Biol., 18, 630, 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02533.x Brando, 2014, Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 111, 6347, 10.1073/pnas.1305499111 Brando, 2019, Droughts, wildfires, and forest carbon cycling: a pantropical synthesis, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 47, 555, 10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010235 Brando, 2019, Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: implications for CO2 and H2O fluxes, Glob. Chang. Biol., 25, 2855, 10.1111/gcb.14659 Brando, 2020, The gathering firestorm in southern Amazonia, Sci. Adv., 6, 10.1126/sciadv.aay1632 Bush, 2008, Fire, climate change and biodiversity in Amazonia: a Late-Holocene perspective, Philos. Trans. Biol. Sci., 363, 1795, 10.1098/rstb.2007.0014 Cochrane, 2003, Fire science for rainforests, Nature, 421, 913, 10.1038/nature01437 Coe, 2016, The hydrology and energy balance of the amazon basin, 35 Curtis, 2018, Classifying drivers of global forest loss, Science, 361, 1108, 10.1126/science.aau3445 França, 2020, El Niño impacts on human‐modified tropical forests: consequences for dung beetle diversity and associated ecological processes, Biotropica., 10.1111/btp.12756 Fu, 2013, Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 110, 18110, 10.1073/pnas.1302584110 Funk, 2015, The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes, Sci. Data, 2, 10.1038/sdata.2015.66 Gibbs, 2015, Brazil’s soy moratorium, Science, 347, 377, 10.1126/science.aaa0181 Giglio, 2016, The collection 6 MODIS active fire detection algorithm and fire products, Remote Sens. Environ., 178, 31, 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.054 Hansen, 2013, High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change, Science, 342, 850, 10.1126/science.1244693 Heckenberger, 2003, Amazonia 1492: pristine forest or cultural parkland?, Science, 301, 1710, 10.1126/science.1086112 INPE (National Institute for Space Research, Brazil), 2019 Lee, 2013, Forest productivity and water stress in Amazonia: observations from GOSAT chlorophyll fluorescence, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 Leite-Filho, 2019, The southern Amazon rainy season: the role of deforestation and its interactions with large-scale mechanisms, Int. J. Climatol. Macedo, 2012, Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 109, 1341, 10.1073/pnas.1111374109 Morton, 2013, Understorey fire frequency and the fate of burned forests in southern Amazonia, Philos. Trans. Biol. Sci., 368, 10.1098/rstb.2012.0163 Nepstad, 1994, The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures, Nature, 372, 666, 10.1038/372666a0 Nepstad, 1999, Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire, Nature, 398, 505, 10.1038/19066 Nepstad, 2001, Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests, For. Ecol. Manage., 1543, 395, 10.1016/S0378-1127(01)00511-4 Nepstad, 2004, Amazon drought and its implications for forest flammability and tree growth: a basin‐wide analysis, Glob. Chang. Biol., 10, 704, 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00772.x Nepstad, 2007, Mortality of large trees and lianas following experimental drought in an Amazon forest, Ecology, 88, 2259, 10.1890/06-1046.1 Nepstad, 2008, Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point, Philos. Trans. Biol. Sci., 363, 1737, 10.1098/rstb.2007.0036 Nepstad, 2014, Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains, Science, 344, 1118, 10.1126/science.1248525 Nobre, 2016, Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 113, 10759, 10.1073/pnas.1605516113 Paolucci, 2016, Fire in the Amazon: impact of experimental fuel addition on responses of ants and their interactions with myrmecochorous seeds, Oecologia, 182, 335, 10.1007/s00442-016-3638-x Paolucci, 2017, Fire-induced forest transition to derived savannas: cascading effects on ant communities, Biol. Conserv., 214, 295, 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.08.020 Paolucci, 2019, Lowland tapirs facilitate seed dispersal in degraded Amazonian forests, Biotropica, 51, 245, 10.1111/btp.12627 Ray, 2005, Micrometeorological and canopy controls of fire susceptibility in a forested Amazon landscape, Ecol. Appl., 15, 1664, 10.1890/05-0404 Ray, 2010, Predicting moisture dynamics of fine understory fuels in a moist tropical rainforest system: results of a pilot study undertaken to identify proxy variables useful for rating fire danger, New Phytol., 187, 720, 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03358.x Silvério, 2015, Agricultural expansion dominates climate changes in southeastern Amazonia: the overlooked non-GHG forcing, Environ. Res. Lett., 10, 10.1088/1748-9326/10/10/104015 Silvério, 2019, Fire, fragmentation, and windstorms: a recipe for tropical forest degradation, J. Ecol., 107, 656, 10.1111/1365-2745.13076 Sparovek, 2019, Who owns Brazilian lands?, Land Use Policy, 87, 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104062 Stabile, 2020, Solving Brazil’s land use puzzle: increasing production and slowing Amazon deforestation, Land Use Policy, 91, 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104362 Strassburg, 2017, Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot, Nat. Ecol. Evol., 1, 1, 10.1038/s41559-017-0099 Walker, 2020, The role of forest conversion, degradation, and disturbance in the carbon dynamics of Amazon indigenous territories and protected areas, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 1176, 3015, 10.1073/pnas.1913321117 Wan, 2015