Forest Fragmentation and Fires in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon–Maranhão State, Brazil

• Published in: Fire (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 5; no. 3; p. 77
• Main Authors: Silva-Junior, Celso H. L., Buna, Arisson T. M., Bezerra, Denilson S., Costa, Ozeas S., Santos, Adriano L., Basson, Lidielze O. D., Santos, André L. S., Alvarado, Swanni T., Almeida, Catherine T., Freire, Ana T. G., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Celentano, Danielle, Silva, Fabricio B., Pinheiro, Maria S. S., Amaral, Silvana, Kampel, Milton, Vedovato, Laura B., Anderson, Liana O., Aragão, Luiz E. O. C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.06.2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Brazil; carbon emissions; climate change; Datasets; Deforestation; Ecosystems; Environmental aspects; Fire prevention; Forest & brush fires; Forest fires; Fragmentation; Habitat destruction; Habitat fragmentation; land conversion; Land cover; Land use; Maranhão; Morphology; Precipitation; Rainfall; Remote sensing; Sensors; Spatial analysis; Surface temperature; Tropical forests; Brazil; Amazon Basin

Tropical forests provide essential environmental services to human well-being. In the world, Brazil has the largest continuous area of these forests. However, in the state of Maranhão, in the eastern Amazon, only 24% of the original forest cover remains. We integrated and analyzed active fires, burn...