@article{ref1,
title="The incidence of fire in Amazonian forests with implications for REDD",
journal="Science",
year="2010",
author="Aragão, Luiz E. O. C. and Shimabukuro, Yosio E.",
volume="328",
number="5983",
pages="1275-1278",
abstract="Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) may curb carbon emissions, but the consequences for fire hazard are poorly understood. By analyzing satellite-derived deforestation and fire data from the Brazilian Amazon, we show that fire occurrence has increased in 59% of the area that has experienced reduced deforestation rates. Differences in fire frequencies across two land-use gradients reveal that fire-free land-management can substantially reduce fire incidence by as much as 69%. If sustainable fire-free land-management of deforested areas is not adopted in the REDD mechanism, then the carbon savings achieved by avoiding deforestation may be partially negated by increased emissions from fires.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0036-8075",
doi="10.1126/science.1186925",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1186925"
}