Articles | Volume 8, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-1237-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-1237-2017
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20 Dec 2017
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Synergy between land use and climate change increases future fire risk in Amazon forests

Yannick Le Page, Douglas Morton, Corinne Hartin, Ben Bond-Lamberty, José Miguel Cardoso Pereira, George Hurtt, and Ghassem Asrar

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (18 Oct 2017) by Michel Crucifix
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (02 Nov 2017) by Michel Crucifix
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Fires damage large areas of eastern Amazon forests when ignitions from human activity coincide with droughts, while more humid central and western regions are less affected. Here, we use a fire model to estimate that fire activity could increase by an order of magnitude without climate mitigation. Our results show that avoiding further agricultural expansion can limit fire ignitions but that tackling climate change is essential to insulate the interior Amazon through the 21st century.
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