Tropical forest structure modulates flammability and response to extreme droughts in the Amazon


Marcos Longo1, Sassan Saatchi2, Michael Keller3, Antonio Ferraz4, Kevin W Bowman2, A. Anthony Bloom4, Maiza Nara dos-Santos5, Victoria Meyer6 and Douglas C Morton7, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Rio Piedras, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, Brazil, (6)School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States