This policy brief presents the level of emissions from understory forest wildfires in the Amazon as a way to highlight the urgent need to protect the carbon sink and storage potential, a critical function of the Amazonian rainforests, which has been diminished.
Camila Silva, Ane Alencar, Aline Pontes, Julia Shimbo, Wallace Silva, Fernando Elias
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