Scale matters in understanding the complexity of Amazon fires: A response to the Editor

Xiyan Xu; Gensuo Jia; Xiaoyan Zhang; William J Riley; Ying Xue

doi:10.1111/gcb.15459

Scale matters in understanding the complexity of Amazon fires: A response to the Editor

Glob Chang Biol. 2021 Feb;27(3):e2-e4. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15459. Epub 2020 Dec 11.

Authors

Xiyan Xu¹, Gensuo Jia¹, Xiaoyan Zhang², William J Riley³, Ying Xue⁴

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
² School of Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.
³ Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁴ School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.

PMID: 33237629
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15459

Abstract

The Amazon Basin is experiencing climate change, altered hydrological cycles, and forest loss. The processes causing increased fires are complex, and therefore cannot be attributed to climate change or human-induced deforestation alone. Here, we show why the Amazon fires must be understood across spatial scales within the regional coupled system.

Keywords: Amazon; climate regime; fires; forests; land use; scale.

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Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Climate Change
Fires*
Forests
Humans
Trees*

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