ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Fire resilience of Amazonian forests: past, present and future
The challenge. Despite a global decline in burned area, total CO2 emissions from fires have increased due to more fires in previously largely fire-free and therefore fire-sensitive forests. Existing knowledge of fire impacts comes from fire-adapted ecosystems and cannot be easily translated to fire-sensitive forests. Particularly the Amazon has seen recent increase in fire frequency and intensity, with devastating local effects on the forest, regional-scale air pollution, and global CO2 rise. Aim. I aim to understand fire resilience – i.e. resistance to fire and post-fire recovery – of fire-sensitive ecosystems by studying the Amazon. I will assess fire resilience at multiple temporal…
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