Marcia N. Macedo

Feb 20, 2024 | nature.com | James Randerson |Marcia N. Macedo |Douglas C. Morton |Jakob Zscheischler |Ludmila Rattis |Sonia I. Seneviratne

AbstractDeforestation and climate change are expected to alter fire regimes along the Cerrado-Amazon transition, one of the world’s most active agricultural frontiers. Here we tested the hypothesis that the time since land-use transition (age of frontier) and agricultural intensification also drive changes in the region’s fire regimes by reducing fire probability in both drought and non-drought years.