Sunday, June 17, 2012

Amazon basin sees shift from burning forest to savanna fires

Environmental Research Web: The Amazon basin has seen a shift in biomass burning from relatively more forest fires in the early 2000s to a larger proportion of savanna/agricultural fires in the late 2000s. That is according to researchers from Stanford University, US, NASA/GSFC/Laboratory for Atmospheres, US, and the University of São Paulo, Brazil, who used satellite data on land cover, aerosol optical depth, single scattering albedo, and precipitation. "We attribute this shift in part to enhanced forest law enforcement...

URL: http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/49946

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