Cited by 1,218Fire effects on ecosystemsConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementForest Management and Policy

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 87 of the 87 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Fire science for rainforests

Cochrane, Mark A.·2003·Nature

Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Forest fires are growing in size and frequency across the tropics. Continually eroding fragmented forest edges, they are unintended ecological disturbances that transcend deforestation to degrade vast regions of standing forest, diminishing ecosystem services and the economic potential of these natural resources. Affecting the health of millions, net forest fire emissions may have released carbon equivalent to 41% of worldwide fossil fuel use in 1997-98. Episodically more severe during El Niño events, pan-tropical forest fires will increase as more damaged, less fire-resistant, forests cover the landscape. Here I discuss the current state of tropical fire science and make recommendations for advancement.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/nature01437

Cites

87 of 87 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Climate change 2001 : the scientific basis
Houghton, J., Ding, Y., Griggs, D., Noguer, M., van der Linden, P. V. D., Dai, X., Maskell, K., & Johnson, C. (2001) · Foreign Affairs · doi:10.2307/20033020 · Cited by 14,162
Climate change 2001: The scientific basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Griggs, D., & Noguer, M. (2002) · Weather · doi:10.1256/004316502320517344 · Cited by 5,801
Aerosols, Climate, and the Hydrological Cycle
Ramanathan, V., Crutzen, P. J., Kiehl, J. T., & Rosenfeld, D. (2001) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1064034 · Cited by 3,831
Biomass Burning in the Tropics: Impact on Atmospheric Chemistry and Biogeochemical Cycles
Crutzen, P. J., & Andreae, M. O. (1990) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.250.4988.1669 · Cited by 2,526
A satellite view of aerosols in the climate system
Kaufman, Y. J., Tanré, D., & Boucher, O. (2002) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature01091 · Cited by 2,260
Fire Ecology of Pacific Northwest Forests
Agee, J. K. (2013) · doi:10.2307/jj.41003522 · Cited by 2,011
The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997
Page, S. E., Siegert, F., Rieley, J. O., Boehm, H.-D. V., Jaya, A., & Limin, S. (2002) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature01131 · Cited by 1,885
FARSITE: Fire Area Simulator-model development and evaluation
Finney, M. A. (1998) · doi:10.2737/rmrs-rp-4 · Cited by 1,617
Tropical Deforestation and Habitat Fragmentation in the Amazon: Satellite Data from 1978 to 1988
Skole, D., & Tucker, C. (1993) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.260.5116.1905 · Cited by 1,590
The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures
Nepstad, D. C., de Carvalho, C. R., Davidson, E. A., Jipp, P. H., Lefebvre, P. A., Negreiros, G., da Silva, E. D., STONE, T. A., Trumbore, S. E., & Vieira, S. A. (1994) · Nature · doi:10.1038/372666a0 · Cited by 1,431

Show all 87 references

Research works printed but not linked: 11

Cochrane, M. A. Spreading Like Wildfire—Tropical Forest Fires in Latin America and the Caribbean: Prevention, Assessment and Early Warning (United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Mexico City, 2002); available at http://www.rolac.unep.mx/dewalac/eng/fire_ingles.pdf
Ruitenbeek, J. in Indonesia's Fire and Haze: the Cost of Catastrophe (eds Glover, D. & Jessup, T.) 88–112 (International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, 1999)
United Nations Environment Programme GEO Latin America and the Caribbean: Environment Outlook 2000 (UNEP, Mexico City, 2000)
Cairns, M. A., Hao, W. M., Alvarado, E. & Haggerty, P. in Vol. 1: Proc. Joint Fire Science Conf. and Workshop: Crossing the Millennium: Integrating Spatial Technologies and Ecological Principles for a New Age in Fire Management (eds Neuenschwander, L. F., Ryan, K. C., Gollberg, G. E. & Greer, J. D.) 242–247 (University of Idaho and the International Association of Wildland Fire, Moscow, Idaho, 2000)
Ward, D. E. in Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events: Background Papers (eds Goh, K., Schwela, D., Goldammer, J. G. & Simpson, O.) 71–86 (World Health Organization, Geneva, 1999)
Mueller-Dombois, M. Proc. Conf. Fire Regimes and Ecosystem Properties. General Technical Report WO-26, 137–176 (US Forest Service, Washington DC, 1981)
Aubréville, A. M. A. The disappearance of the tropical forests of Africa. Unasylva 1, 5–11 (1947)
Vayda, A. P. Finding Causes of the 1997–98 Indonesian Forest Fires: Problems and Possibilities (World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Jakarta, Indonesia, 1999)
Bailey, W. O. Report on the Michigan Forest Fires of 1881 (US War Department, Washington DC, 1882)
Goldammer, J. G. in Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events: Background Papers (eds Goh, K., Schwela, D., Goldammer, J. G. & Simpson, O.) 9–70 (World Health Organization, Geneva, 1999)
Oertel, D. et al. in Forest Fire Monitoring and Mapping: a Component of Global Observation of Forest Cover (eds Ahern, F., Grégoire, J. M. & Justice, C.) 224–228 (Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, 2000)

Sorted by citations

Fire in the Earth System
Bowman, D. M. J. S., Balch, J. K., Artaxo, P., Bond, W. J., Carlson, J. M., Cochrane, M. A., D’Antonio, C. M., DeFries, R. S., Doyle, J. C., Harrison, S. P., et al. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1163886 · Cited by 3,351
Self-citation
Fire as a global ‘herbivore’: the ecology and evolution of flammable ecosystems
BOND, W., & KEELEY, J. (2005) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2005.04.025 · Cited by 2,484
Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013
Jolly, W. M., Cochrane, M. A., Freeborn, P. H., Holden, Z. A., Brown, T. J., Williamson, G. J., & Bowman, D. M. J. S. (2015) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms8537 · Cited by 2,200
Self-citation
Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience
Johnstone, J. F., Allen, C. D., Franklin, J. F., Frelich, L. E., Harvey, B. J., Higuera, P. E., Mack, M. C., Meentemeyer, R. K., Metz, M. R., Perry, G. L., et al. (2016) · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · doi:10.1002/fee.1311 · Cited by 1,513
Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire
Flannigan, M. D., Krawchuk, M. A., de Groot, W. J., Wotton, B. M., & Gowman, L. M. (2009) · International Journal of Wildland Fire · doi:10.1071/wf08187 · Cited by 1,460
Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes
De Deyn, G. B., Cornelissen, J. H. C., & Bardgett, R. D. (2008) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01164.x · Cited by 1,431
How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity?
Fitzherbert, E. B., Struebig, M. J., Morel, A., Danielsen, F., Brühl, C. A., Donald, P. F., & Phalan, B. (2008) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.06.012 · Cited by 1,463
Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change
Jones, M. W., Abatzoglou, J. T., Veraverbeke, S., Andela, N., Lasslop, G., Forkel, M., Smith, A. J. P., Burton, C., Betts, R. A., van der Werf, G. R., et al. (2022) · Reviews of Geophysics · doi:10.1029/2020rg000726 · Cited by 1,332
The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth
Bowman, D. M. J. S., Balch, J., Artaxo, P., Bond, W. J., Cochrane, M. A., D’Antonio, C. M., DeFries, R., Johnston, F. H., Keeley, J. E., Krawchuk, M. A., et al. (2011) · Journal of Biogeography · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02595.x · Cited by 1,230
“Our purpose here is to describe the historical development of humanity’s relationship with fire and the role humans play in the diversification of contemporary fire regimes globally, thus providing a framework for thinking about how humans influence fire regimes in space and time.”
BackgroundSelf-citation
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: History, Rates, and Consequences
Fearnside, P. M. (2005) · Conservation Biology · doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00697.x · Cited by 1,315
Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene
Bowman, D. M. J. S., Kolden, C. A., Abatzoglou, J. T., Johnston, F. H., van der Werf, G. R., & Flannigan, M. (2020) · Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · doi:10.1038/s43017-020-0085-3 · Cited by 1,198
Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon
Morton, D. C., DeFries, R. S., Shimabukuro, Y. E., Anderson, L. O., Arai, E., del Bon Espirito-Santo, F., Freitas, R., & Morisette, J. (2006) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0606377103 · Cited by 1,081
Global Pyrogeography: the Current and Future Distribution of Wildfire
Krawchuk, M. A., Moritz, M. A., Parisien, M.-A., Van Dorn, J., & Hayhoe, K. (2009) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005102 · Cited by 1,000
21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions
Aragão, L. E. O. C., Anderson, L. O., Fonseca, M. G., Rosan, T. M., Vedovato, L. B., Wagner, F. H., Silva, C. V. J., Silva Junior, C. H. L., Arai, E., Aguiar, A. P., et al. (2018) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02771-y · Cited by 940
The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013
Potapov, P. V., Hansen, M. C., Laestadius, L., Turubanova, S. A., Yaroshenko, A., Thies, C., Smith, W., Zhuravleva, I., Komarova, A., Minnemeyer, S., et al. (2017) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600821 · Cited by 907
Increasing human dominance of tropical forests
Lewis, S. L., Edwards, D. P., & Galbraith, D. R. (2015) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aaa9932 · Cited by 893
Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia
Marlon, J. R., Bartlein, P. J., Carcaillet, C., Gavin, D. G., Harrison, S. P., Higuera, P. E., Joos, F., Power, M. J., & Prentice, I. C. (2008) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo313 · Cited by 823
Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions
Brando, P. M., Balch, J. K., Nepstad, D. C., Morton, D. C., Putz, F. E., Coe, M. T., Silvério, D., Macedo, M. N., Davidson, E. A., Nóbrega, C. C., et al. (2014) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1305499111 · Cited by 804
Trends in global wildfire potential in a changing climate
Liu, Y., Stanturf, J., & Goodrick, S. (2010) · Forest Ecology and Management · doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.002 · Cited by 791
Tropical forests in a changing environment
Wright, S. J. (2005) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2005.07.009 · Cited by 779
The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems
Barlow, J., França, F. M., Gardner, T. A., Hicks, C. C., Lennox, G. D., Berenguer, É., Castello, L., Economo, E. P., Ferreira, J., Guénard, B., et al. (2018) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0301-1 · Cited by 764
The collection 5 MODIS burned area product — Global evaluation by comparison with the MODIS active fire product
Roy, D. P., Boschetti, L., Justice, C. O., & Ju, J. (2008) · Remote Sensing of Environment · doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.05.013 · Cited by 722
Historic global biomass burning emissions for CMIP6 (BB4CMIP) based on merging satellite observations with proxies and fire models (1750–2015)
van Marle, M. J. E., Kloster, S., Magi, B. I., Marlon, J. R., Daniau, A.-L., Field, R. D., Arneth, A., Forrest, M., Hantson, S., Kehrwald, N. M., et al. (2017) · Geoscientific Model Development · doi:10.5194/gmd-10-3329-2017 · Cited by 704
Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events
Bowman, D. M. J. S., Williamson, G. J., Abatzoglou, J. T., Kolden, C. A., Cochrane, M. A., & Smith, A. M. S. (2017) · Nature Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1038/s41559-016-0058 · Cited by 682
Self-citation
Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon
Barber, C. P., Cochrane, M. A., Souza, C. M., & Laurance, W. F. (2014) · Biological Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2014.07.004 · Cited by 667
Self-citation
Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services
Fischlin, A., Midgley, G. F., Turley, C., & Velichko, A. A. (2007) · IRIS · Cited by 623
Tree Diversity Drives Forest Stand Resistance to Natural Disturbances
Jactel, H., Bauhus, J., Boberg, J. B., Bonal, D., Castagneyrol, B., Gardiner, B., González‐Olabarria, J. R., Koricheva, J., Meurisse, N., & Brockerhoff, E. G. (2017) · Current Forestry Reports · doi:10.1007/s40725-017-0064-1 · Cited by 641
Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests
McDowell, N., Allen, C. D., Anderson‐Teixeira, K., Brando, P., Brienen, R., Chambers, J., Christoffersen, B., Davies, S., Doughty, C., Duque, A., et al. (2018) · New Phytologist · doi:10.1111/nph.15027 · Cited by 597
Prototyping a global algorithm for systematic fire-affected area mapping using MODIS time series data
Roy, D. P., Jin, Y., Lewis, P., & Justice, C. (2005) · Remote Sensing of Environment · doi:10.1016/j.rse.2005.04.007 · Cited by 563
Black carbon: The reverse of its dark side
Koelmans, A. A., Jonker, M. T. O., Cornelissen, G., Bucheli, T. D., van Noort, P. C. M., & Gustafsson, Ö. (2005) · Chemosphere · doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.08.034 · Cited by 556
Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene
Malhi, Y. S., Gardner, T. A., Goldsmith, G. R., Silman, M. R., & Zelazowski, P. (2014) · Annual Review of Environment and Resources · doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-030713-155141 · Cited by 561
On the protection of “protected areas”
Joppa, L., Loarie, S. R., & Pimm, S. L. (2008) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0802471105 · Cited by 531
Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature
Jain, P., Castellanos‐Acuña, D., Coogan, S. C. P., Abatzoglou, J. T., & Flannigan, M. (2021) · Nature Climate Change · doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01224-1 · Cited by 513
Constraints on global fire activity vary across a resource gradient
Krawchuk, M. A., & Moritz, M. A. (2011) · Ecology · doi:10.1890/09-1843.1 · Cited by 472
Extreme climatic events shape arid and semiarid ecosystems
Holmgren, M., Stapp, P., Dickman, C. R., Gracia, C. A., Graham, S., Gutiérrez, J. R., Hice, C. L., Jaksić, F. M., Kelt, D. A., Letnic, M., et al. (2006) · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · doi:10.1890/1540-9295(2006)004[0087:ecesaa]2.0.co;2 · Cited by 477
The effects of climate change on tropical birds
Şekercioğlu, Ç. H., Primack, R. B., & Wormworth, J. (2012) · Biological Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.019 · Cited by 460
A large‐scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human‐modified tropical forests
Berenguer, É., Ferreira, J., Gardner, T. A., Aragão, L. E. O. C., de Camargo, P. B., Cerri, C. E. P., Durigan, M., de Oliveira, R. C., Vieira, I. C. G., & Barlow, J. (2014) · Global Change Biology · doi:10.1111/gcb.12627 · Cited by 472
The influence of vegetation, fire spread and fire behaviour on biomass burning and trace gas emissions: results from a process-based model
(2010) · doi:10.5194/bg-7-1991-2010 · Cited by 448
Bark thickness and fire regime
Pausas, J. G. (2014) · Functional Ecology · doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12372 · Cited by 458
What controls the distribution of tropical forest and savanna?
Murphy, B. P., & Bowman, D. M. J. S. (2012) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01771.x · Cited by 435
Forest disturbance and recovery: A general review in the context of spaceborne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure
Frolking, S., Palace, M., Clark, D. B., Chambers, J. Q., Shugart, H. H., & HURTT, G. C. (2009) · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · doi:10.1029/2008jg000911 · Cited by 452
Improved estimates of net carbon emissions from land cover change in the tropics for the 1990s
Achard, F., Eva, H. D., Mayaux, P., Stibig, H., & Belward, A. S. (2004) · Global Biogeochemical Cycles · doi:10.1029/2003gb002142 · Cited by 436
The global fire-productivity relationship
Pausas, J. G., & Ribeiro, E. (2013) · Global Ecology and Biogeography · doi:10.1111/geb.12043 · Cited by 440
The origin of the savanna biome
Beerling, D. J., & Osborne, C. P. (2006) · Global Change Biology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01239.x · Cited by 414
Impacts of climate change on the vegetation of Africa: an adaptive dynamic vegetation modelling approach
Scheiter, S., & Higgins, S. I. (2008) · Global Change Biology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01838.x · Cited by 421
Long-term forest degradation surpasses deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Matricardi, E. A. T., Skole, D. L., Costa, O. B., Pedlowski, M. A., Samek, J. H., & Miguel, E. P. (2020) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.abb3021 · Cited by 411
Australian climate–carbon cycle feedback reduced by soil black carbon
Lehmann, J. C., Skjemstad, J. O., Sohi, S., Carter, J., Barson, M. M., Falloon, P., Coleman, K., Woodbury, P. B., & Krull, E. S. (2008) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo358 · Cited by 412
Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies
Pivello, V. R., Vieira, I. C. G., Christianini, A. V., Ribeiro, D. B., Menezes, L. D. S., Berlinck, C. N., Melo, F. P. L., Marengo, J. A., Tornquist, C. G., Tomás, W. M., et al. (2021) · Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.pecon.2021.06.005 · Cited by 425
Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation
Ramankutty, N., Gibbs, H., Achard, F., DeFries, R., Foley, J. A., & Houghton, R. A. (2006) · Global Change Biology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01272.x · Cited by 400
Spatial and temporal expansion of global wildland fire activity in response to climate change
Senande-Rivera, M., Insúa-Costa, D., & Miguez‐Macho, G. (2022) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28835-2 · Cited by 456
Global Trends of Forest Loss Due to Fire From 2001 to 2019
Tyukavina, A., Potapov, P. V., Hansen, M. C., Pickens, A., Stehman, S. V., Turubanova, S. A., Parker, D., Zalles, V., Lima, A. L. D., Kommareddy, I., et al. (2022) · Frontiers in Remote Sensing · doi:10.3389/frsen.2022.825190 · Cited by 471
Tropical forests and the changing earth system
Lewis, S. L. (2005) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1711 · Cited by 405
Combining spectral and spatial information to map canopy damage from selective logging and forest fires
Júnior, C. M. D. S., Roberts, D. A., & Cochrane, M. A. (2005) · Remote Sensing of Environment · doi:10.1016/j.rse.2005.07.013 · Cited by 382
Self-citation
Can forest management based on natural disturbances maintain ecological resilience?
Drever, C. R., Peterson, G., Messier, C., Bergeron, Y., & Flannigan, M. (2006) · Canadian Journal of Forest Research · doi:10.1139/x06-132 · Cited by 381
Fuel shapes the fire–climate relationship: evidence from Mediterranean ecosystems
Pausas, J. G., & Paula, S. (2012) · Global Ecology and Biogeography · doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00769.x · Cited by 398
A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system
Dislich, C., Keyel, A. C., Salecker, J., Kisel, Y., Meyer, K., Auliya, M., Barnes, A. D., Corre, M. D., Darras, K., Faust, H., et al. (2016) · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · doi:10.1111/brv.12295 · Cited by 438
Observing and understanding the Southeast Asian aerosol system by remote sensing: An initial review and analysis for the Seven Southeast Asian Studies (7SEAS) program
Reid, J. S., Hyer, E. J., Johnson, R. S., HOLBEN, B. N., Yokelson, R. J., Zhang, J., Campbell, J. R., Christopher, S. A., Girolamo, L. D., Giglio, L., et al. (2012) · Atmospheric Research · doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.06.005 · Cited by 375
Global patterns of interannual climate–fire relationships
Abatzoglou, J. T., Williams, P., Boschetti, L., Zubkova, M., & Kolden, C. A. (2018) · Global Change Biology · doi:10.1111/gcb.14405 · Cited by 390
Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest
Barlow, J., & Peres, C. A. (2008) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.0013 · Cited by 360
Condition and fate of logged forests in the Brazilian Amazon
Asner, G. P., Broadbent, E. N., Oliveira, P. J. C., Keller, M., Knapp, D., & Silva, J. N. M. (2006) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0604093103 · Cited by 360
Fire Information for Resource Management System: Archiving and Distributing MODIS Active Fire Data
Davies, D. K., Ilavajhala, S., Wong, M. M., & Justice, C. (2008) · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · doi:10.1109/tgrs.2008.2002076 · Cited by 360
Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems
(IPCC), I. P. O. C. C. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9781107415379.009 · Cited by 355
Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept~!2009-09-02~!2009-11-09~!2010-03-05~!
Whitlock, C., Higuera, P. E., McWethy, D. B., & Briles, C. E. (2010) · The Open Ecology Journal · doi:10.2174/1874213001003020006 · Cited by 342
Climate controls on the variability of fires in the tropics and subtropics
van der Werf, G. R., Randerson, J. T., Giglio, L., Gobron, N., & Dolman, A. J. (2008) · Global Biogeochemical Cycles · doi:10.1029/2007gb003122 · Cited by 339
A record of Late Pleistocene and Holocene carbon accumulation and climate change from an equatorial peat bog (Kalimantan, Indonesia): implications for past, present and future carbon dynamics
Page, S., Wüst, R. A. J., Weiss, D. J., Rieley, J. O., Shotyk, W., & Limin, S. H. (2004) · Journal of Quaternary Science · doi:10.1002/jqs.884 · Cited by 328
Trends in the state of nature and their implications for human well‐being
Balmford, A. P., & Bond, W. J. (2005) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00814.x · Cited by 323
Capitalismo e colapso ambiental
Marques, L. (2018) · Editora da Unicamp eBooks · doi:10.7476/9788526815032 · Cited by 314
‘Tipping points’ for the Amazon forest
Nobre, C. A., & Borma, L. S. (2009) · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2009.07.003 · Cited by 320
The roles and movements of actors in the deforestation of Brazilian Amazonia
Fearnside, P. M. (2008) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-02451-130123 · Cited by 305
Fire regimes of A ustralia: a pyrogeographic model system
Murphy, B. P., Bradstock, R. A., Boer, M. M., Carter, J., Cary, G. J., Cochrane, M. A., Fensham, R. J., Russell‐Smith, J., Williamson, G. J., & Bowman, D. M. J. S. (2013) · Journal of Biogeography · doi:10.1111/jbi.12065 · Cited by 301
Self-citation
Global increase in wildfire potential from compound fire weather and drought
Richardson, D., Black, A. S., Irving, D., Matear, R. J., Monselesan, D. P., Risbey, J. S., Squire, D. T., & Tozer, C. R. (2022) · npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · doi:10.1038/s41612-022-00248-4 · Cited by 303
The Importance of Defining ‘Forest’: Tropical Forest Degradation, Deforestation, Long‐term Phase Shifts, and Further Transitions
Putz, F. E., & Redford, K. H. (2009) · Biotropica · doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00567.x · Cited by 311
The incidence of fire in Amazonian forests with implications for REDD
Aragão, L. E. O. C., & Shimabukuro, Y. E. (2010) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1186925 · Cited by 298
Land cover change 2002–2005 in Borneo and the role of fire derived from MODIS imagery
Langner, A., Miettinen, J., & Siegert, F. (2007) · Global Change Biology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01442.x · Cited by 300
Photochemistry of Hydrochar: Reactive Oxygen Species Generation and Sulfadimidine Degradation
Chen, N., Huang, Y., Hou, X., Ai, Z., & Zhang, L. (2017) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b02740 · Cited by 290
Climate change, human land use and future fires in the Amazon
COCHRANE, M. A., & BARBER, C. P. (2009) · Global Change Biology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01786.x · Cited by 274
Self-citation
The restoration of biodiversity: Where has research been and where does it need to go?
Brudvig, L. A. (2010) · American Journal of Botany · doi:10.3732/ajb.1000285 · Cited by 292
The intermediate disturbance hypothesis applies to tropical forests, but disturbance contributes little to tree diversity
Bongers, F., Poorter, L., Hawthorne, W. D., & Sheil, D. (2009) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01329.x · Cited by 279
Global patterns in the sensitivity of burned area to fire-weather: implications for climate change
Bedia, J., Herrera, S., Gutiérrez, J. M., Benali, A., Brands, S., Mota, B., & Moreno, J. M. (2015) · Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.09.002 · Cited by 276
Fire in the Riparian Zone: Characteristics and Ecological Consequences
Pettit, N. E., & Naiman, R. J. (2007) · Ecosystems · doi:10.1007/s10021-007-9048-5 · Cited by 277
Trends in Ecosystem Service Research: Early Steps and Current Drivers
Vihervaara, P., Rönkä, M., & Walls, M. (2010) · AMBIO · doi:10.1007/s13280-010-0048-x · Cited by 284
MICROMETEOROLOGICAL AND CANOPY CONTROLS OF FIRE SUSCEPTIBILITY IN A FORESTED AMAZON LANDSCAPE
Ray, D., Nepstad, D. C., & Moutinho, P. R. S. (2005) · Ecological Applications · doi:10.1890/05-0404 · Cited by 273
Detecting anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests
Peres, C. A., Barlow, J., & Laurance, W. F. (2006) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2006.03.007 · Cited by 265
Environmental change and the carbon balance of A mazonian forests
Aragão, L. E. O. C., Poulter, B., Barlow, J., Anderson, L. O., Malhi, Y. S., Saatchi, S. S., Phillips, O. L., & Gloor, E. U. (2014) · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · doi:10.1111/brv.12088 · Cited by 275
Remote sensing of forest degradation: a review
Gao, Y., Skutsch, M., Paneque‐Gálvez, J., & Ghilardi, A. (2020) · Environmental Research Letters · doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abaad7 · Cited by 290
Determination of the amount of carbon stored in Indonesian peatlands
Jaenicke, J., Rieley, J. O., Mott, C., Kimman, P., & Siegert, F. (2008) · Geoderma · doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.08.008 · Cited by 260
Synergisms among Fire, Land Use, and Climate Change in the Amazon
Cochrane, M. A., & Laurance, W. F. (2008) · AMBIO · doi:10.1579/0044-7447-37.7.522 · Cited by 250
Self-citation
Extent and ecological consequences of hunting in Central African rainforests in the twenty-first century
Abernethy, K. A., Coad, L., Taylor, G., Lee, M. E., & Maisels, F. G. (2013) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0303 · Cited by 247
Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota
Laurance, W. F., Useche, D. C., Shoo, L. P., Herzog, S. K., Kessler, M. R., Escobar, F., Brehm, G., Axmacher, J. C., Chen, I., Arellano-Gámez, L., et al. (2010) · Biological Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.10.010 · Cited by 240
Air quality and human health improvements from reductions in deforestation-related fire in Brazil
Reddington, C. L., Butt, E. W., Ridley, D. A., Artaxo, P., Morgan, W. T., Coe, H., & Spracklen, D. V. (2015) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo2535 · Cited by 244
Soil fauna responses to natural disturbances, invasive species, and global climate change: Current state of the science and a call to action
Coyle, D. R., Nagendra, U. J., Taylor, M. K., Campbell, J. H., Cunard, C. E., Joslin, A. H., Mundepi, A., Phillips, C. A., & Callaham, M. A. (2017) · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.03.008 · Cited by 245
Characterization of the tropical diurnal fire cycle using VIRS and MODIS observations
Giglio, L. (2007) · Remote Sensing of Environment · doi:10.1016/j.rse.2006.11.018 · Cited by 242
Brazil’s Cuiabá- Santarém (BR-163) Highway: The Environmental Cost of Paving a Soybean Corridor Through the Amazon
Fearnside, P. M. (2007) · Environmental Management · doi:10.1007/s00267-006-0149-2 · Cited by 248
Droughts, Wildfires, and Forest Carbon Cycling: A Pantropical Synthesis
Brando, P. M., Paolucci, L. N., Ummenhofer, C. C., Ordway, E. M., Hartmann, H., Cattau, M. E., Rattis, L., Medjibe, V. P., Coe, M. T., & Balch, J. K. (2019) · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010235 · Cited by 249
Forecasting Fire Season Severity in South America Using Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
Chen, Y., Randerson, J. T., Morton, D. C., DeFries, R. S., Collatz, G. J., Kasibhatla, P. S., Giglio, L., Jin, Y., & Marlier, M. E. (2011) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1209472 · Cited by 231
Types and rates of forest disturbance in Brazilian Legal Amazon, 2000–2013
Tyukavina, A., Hansen, M. C., Potapov, P. V., Stehman, S. V., Smith-Rodriguez, K., Okpa, C., & Aguilar, R. (2017) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.1601047 · Cited by 231
Future U.S. wildfire potential trends projected using a dynamically downscaled climate change scenario
Liu, Y., Goodrick, S. L., & Stanturf, J. A. (2012) · Forest Ecology and Management · doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2012.06.049 · Cited by 229
Drought, fire and tree survival in a Borneo rain forest, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Nieuwstadt, M. G. L. V., & Sheil, D. (2004) · Journal of Ecology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2004.00954.x · Cited by 225
Spatiotemporal fire occurrence in Borneo over a period of 10 years
LANGNER, A., & SIEGERT, F. (2009) · Global Change Biology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01828.x · Cited by 222
Vulnerability of land systems to fire: Interactions among humans, climate, the atmosphere, and ecosystems
Lavorel, S., Flannigan, M. D., Lambin, E. F., & Scholes, M. C. (2006) · Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change · doi:10.1007/s11027-006-9046-5 · Cited by 220

Authors: Cochrane, M. A.
Affiliations: Michigan State University (US)
Corresponding author: Cochrane, Mark A.
ORCID: Cochrane, Mark A.
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2003-02
Volume: 421
Issue: 6926
Pages: 913-919
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/nature01437
OpenAlex: W1991355610
Cited by: 1,218
References: 87
Citations by year: 2026: 35 · 2025: 52 · 2024: 71 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 98 · 2021: 60 · 2020: 80 · 2019: 67 · 2018: 102 · 2017: 49 · 2016: 47 · 2015: 45 · 2014: 62 · 2013: 44 · 2012: 48
FWCI: 3.01
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest Management and Policy
Keywords: tropical forest fires, fire science, fire emissions, CO2 emissions, El Niño, fire resistance, ecosystem services, deforestation, forest fragmentation
MeSH terms: Carbon, Feedback, Fires, Humidity, Trees, Tropical Climate, Ecosystem

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

Fire science for rainforests

Abstract

Overview

Integrity signals

Verification

Claims the paper makes

Claims other papers make about this one

Citations

Cites

Cited by

Related

Metadata

Record

About these checks