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Frequent understory fires change rainforest community composition

2013-04-24 19:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Frequent understory fires change the composition of rainforest plant communities, potentially altering the capacity of forests to regenerate, finds a study published in special issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The research, which involved a team of researchers from several institutions in the United States and Brazil, assessed the impact of different fire cycles on rainforest plant species. They found that frequent fires - though limited in intensity - substantially...

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