Biomass Burning in the Tropics: Impact on Atmospheric Chemistry and Biogeochemical Cycles

Paul J. Crutzen, Meinrat O. Andreae · Science · 1990

Summary

Widespread burning of biomass serves to clear land for shifting cultivation, to convert forests to agricultural and pastoral lands, and to remove dry vegetation in order to promote agricultural productivity and the growth of higher yield grasses, but it may also disturb biogeochemical cycles, especially that of nitrogen.

Type: article
Published: 1990-12-21
Cited by: 2,563
References: 71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.250.4988.1669
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17734705/
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Keywords

Biogeochemical cycle, Environmental science, Biomass (ecology), Trace gas, Tropics

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