In their Policy Forum “National forests in the Amazon” (30 Aug., p. 1478), A. Veríssimo et al. seem assured that a new system of national forests will solve the problems of uncontrolled forest exploitation in the Brazilian Amazon. Unfortunately, we are far less optimistic.
Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions
Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions
Interactions between climate and land-use change may drive widespread degradation of Amazonian forests. High-intensity fires associated with extreme weather events could accelerate this degradation by abruptly increasing tree mortality, but this process remains...