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. 2018 Feb 13;9:536. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02771-y

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Fig. 6 — Burned area by land cover and forest fire-associated gross C emissions in the Brazilian Amazon. a Annual area burned quantified from the classification of MODIS images from 2008 and 2012 for three land cover types: forest, secondary forest and pasture. Panels on the right indicate the relationship between log transformed annual area burned in forest (b), secondary forest (c) and pasture (d) and monthly mean of the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) CO total atmospheric column data for each analised year. e Modelled gross CO₂ emissions from forest fires and deforestation. Numbers indicate the total annual emission in Tg CO₂ per year for the Brazilian Amazon biome