Abstract
The forested area in the tropics continues to decrease. It is a challenge to preserve large areas of tropical forest to counteract the accelerating climate change and loss of biodiversity. The cumulative deforested area (including old clearings and hydroelectric dams) in Amazonia up until 1991 reached 427,000 km2 or 11 % of the 4 million km2 original forested portion of Brazil’s 5 million km2 legal Amazon region (Fearnside 1997).
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Steiner, C., Teixeira, W. G., & Zech, W. (2004). Slash and Char: An Alternative to Slash and Burn Practiced in the Amazon Basin. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time (pp. 183–193). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05683-7_14
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