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 BERDS > BELIZE > FIRES > SOURCES
Forest Fires - Literature Sources


Bassini, F. & P. Becker. 1990. Charcoal's occurance in soil depends on topography in terra firme forest near Manaus, Brazil. Biotropica 22(4): 420-422.

Budowski, G. 1966. Fire in tropical lowland areas. Proceedings of the annual tall timbers fire ecology conference. 5: 5-22.

Chazdon, R. L. 1998. Phoenix Rising? Fragility and resilience of tropical forests. Tropinet 9(3)


Dwyer, J.D. & Spellman, D.L. 1981. A list of the dicotyledoneae of Belize. Rhodora 83 (834) pp 161-235.

Hopkins, B. 1983. Succesional processes. In: F. Bourliere (ed.). Tropical Savannas. Pp. 605-616. Elsevier, New York.


Horn, S. P. & R. L. Sanford. 1992. Holocene fires in Costa Rica. Biotropica 24(3): 354-361.

Jacobs, M. 1988. The Tropical Rain Forest, a first encounter. Springer Verlag. 295 pp.


Jacobs, N. D. & A. Castaneda. 1998. The Belize Biodiversity Strategy. Belmopan 2 vols.

Janzen, D. H. 1986. Guanacaste National Park: Tropical ecological and historical restoration. Editorial Universidad Estal A Distancia, San Jose, Costa Rica.Ef

Johnson, M. S. 1974. The Belize Forest Department Southern Coastal Plain Fire Protection Scheme. Land Resources Division. MoD, Misc. report 187.


Johnson, M. S., and D. R. Chaffey. 1973. An inventory of the Chiquibul Forest Reserve, Belize. Land Resource Study No. 14. Land Resources Division, Surrey, UK.

Kauffman, J. B. 1991. Survival by sprouting following fire in the tropical forests of the eastern Amazon. Biotropica 23(3): 219-224.

Koonce, A. L. & A. Gonzalez-Caban. 1990. Social and ecological aspects of fire in Central America. In: J. G. Goldammer (Ed.). Fire in tropical biota. Pp. 135-158. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Lugo. A. E. 1995. Fire and Wetland Management. In: Cerulean, S. and R. T. Engstrom (eds.). 1995. Fire in wetlands: a management perspective. Proceedings of the Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference, No 19. Pp. 1-9. Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL.


Middleton, B. A., E. Sanchez-Rojas, B. Suedmeyer and A. Michels. Fire in a tropical dry forest of Central America: A natural part of the disturbance regime? Biotropica 29(4): 515-517.

ODA. 1989. Belize Tropical Forestry Action Plan. 273 pp.

PFA. 1998. Atlas Centroamericano de incendios. Programma de desarollo sostenible en zonas de frontera agricola. 51 pp. Panama.

Wade, D., J. Ewel And R. Hofstetter. 1980. Fire In South Florida Ecosystems. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report SE-17. Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Asheville, North Carolina.

Wolffsohn, A. F. A. 1967. Post-Hurricane Forest Fires in British Honduras. Commonwealth Forestry Review 46(3): 233-238.



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