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Fire in Some Tropical and Subtropical South American Vegetation Types: An Overview

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Fire in the Tropical Biota

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 84))

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The great majority of the forests of the world have been burned over in various return intervals for many thousands of years. Even the perhumid tropical rain forest, where there is limited evidence of recent fires, was certainly affected by fire in the past. Sanford et al. (1985), studying charcoal fragments found in a tropical rain forest soil near San Carlos de Rio Negro, Venezuela, found radiometric ages which ranged from 250 to 6260 years B.P., indicating that fires occurred in that period (see also Saldarriaga and West 1986). Most likely these fires were associated with extremely dry periods or human disturbances.

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  1. School of Forestry, Federal University of Paraná, 80.001, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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  1. Fire Ecology and Fire Management Research Unit Institute of Forest Zoology, University of Freiburg, Bertoldstraße 17, 7800, Freiburg, Germany

    Johann Georg Goldammer

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Soares, R.V. (1990). Fire in Some Tropical and Subtropical South American Vegetation Types: An Overview. In: Goldammer, J.G. (eds) Fire in the Tropical Biota. Ecological Studies, vol 84. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75395-4_5

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