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Are there lightning Fires in the Amazon Rainforest?

Tropical rainforests have exceptionally high biodiversity and store large amounts of carbon in biomass. However, large and frequent fires across tropical rainforests in the last decades threaten the ecosystem integrity of these ecosystems. The general belief is that fires in the Amazon rainforest are all human-ignited and that lightning fires do not ...
Cunhui Zhang, Thomas Janssen, Matt Jones, Sander Veraverbeke   +3 more
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The longevity and resilience of the Amazon rainforest

2005
AbstractThis chapter highlights and explains the impressive story of the persistence of the Amazonian rainforest throughout the Cenozoic. Palaeoclimate and palaeoecological records suggest that the Amazon rainforest originated in the late Cretaceous and has been a permanent feature of South America for at least the last 55 million years.
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Amazon rainforest to get a growth check

Science, 2016
Ambitious experiment will test whether rising CO 2 will boost the tropical carbon sink.
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AMAZON RAINFOREST AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University
This paper aims to analyze the effect of climate change on the principle of state sovereignty. This study examines the case of the Amazon rainforest, the ‘lungs’ of the earth, which has 60% of its land inside Brazil’s territory and provides a natural ecosystem that helps stabilize the world’s climate.
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Impact of mining-induced deforestation on soil surface temperature and carbon stocks: A case study using remote sensing in the Amazon rainforest

Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2022
F. Chaddad, F. A. Mello, Mahboobeh Tayebi, J. L. Safanelli, L. Campos, M. Amorim, Gabriel Pimenta Barbosa de Sousa, T. O. Ferreira, F. Ruiz, F. Perlatti, L. Greschuk, Nícolas Augusto Rosin, Jorge Tadeu Fim Rosa, J. A. Demattê   +13 more
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Is the Amazon rainforest on the verge of collapse?

2022
Simon Willcock, John Dearing, Gregory Cooper   +2 more
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Environmental cost of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest: Controlling biocapacity deficit and renewable wastes for conserving forest resources

Forest Ecology and Management, 2022
K. Zaman
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The Amazon Rainforest: A green criminological perspective

2013
This chapter presents results from a project undertaken between 2010 and 2016, entitled ‘Lands and Rights in Troubled Water’ (or ‘LAR’), funded by the Dutch NWO-WOTRO (Science for Global Development) Programme; the project focussed on understanding and mitigating conflicts over natural resources in Colombia and Brazil.
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Revisiting dry season vegetation dynamics in the Amazon rainforest using different satellite vegetation datasets

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022
Xiaoming Xie, B. He, Lanlan Guo, Ling Huang, Xingming Hao, Yafeng Zhang, Xuebang Liu, Rui Tang, Si-Qiong Wang   +8 more
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Geochemistry signatures of mercury in soils of the Amazon rainforest biome.

Environmental Research, 2022
F. Lima, P. Pereira, E. C. S. Silva Júnior, I. C. Vasques, J. R. Oliveira, C. C. Windmöller, A. V. Inda, D. Weindorf, N. Curi, B. Ribeiro, L. Guilherme, J. J. Marques   +11 more
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