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    Fire enhances forest degradation within forest edge zones in Africa

    African forests suffer from severe fragmentation that further causes forest degradation near forest edges. The impact of fires used for slash-and-burn on forest edge effects remains unclear. Here, using high-r...

    Zhe Zhao, Wei Li, Philippe Ciais, Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus in Nature Geoscience (2021)

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    Comparable biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks on warming from tropical moist forest degradation

    Tropical forests have undergone extensive deforestation and degradation during the past few decades, but the area and the carbon loss due to degradation could be larger than the losses from deforestation. Degr...

    Lei Zhu, Wei Li, Philippe Ciais, Jiaying He, Alessandro Cescatti in Nature Geoscience (2023)