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Grant Summary

Woods Hole Research Center
Fire, land use, and the savannization of seasonally-dry Amazon forests
Term Amount Date Approved
24 months $2,007,879 Oct. 2008
Purpose
For the collection of fundamental data on forest dieback, carrying out new experimental field studies of forest response to fire and developing novel numerical modeling representations of Amazon forest susceptibility to savannization processes and associated changes in climate, soil nutrients, carbon fluxes and hydrology.
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