Fire enhances forest degradation within forest edge zones in Africa

Zhao, Z; Li, W; Ciais, P; Santoro, M; Cartus, O; Peng, SS; Yin, Y; Yue, C; Yang, H; Yu, L; Zhu, L; Wang, JM

Li, W (corresponding author), Tsinghua Univ, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Key Lab Earth Syst Modeling, Minist Educ, Beijing, Peoples R China.; Li, W (corresponding author), Joint Ctr Global Change Studies, Beijing, Peoples R China.

NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (7): 479

Abstract

African forests suffer from severe fragmentation that further causes forest degradation near forest edges. The impact of fires used for slash-and-burn......

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