Burn Scar in Mature Tree (IMAGE)

University of Exeter

Burn Scar in Mature Tree

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This burn scar in a mature tree was caused by understory fire as evidence of fire leakage from surrounding farms into the edge of an Amazonian forest in Mato Grosso state, southeast Amazonia.

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University of Exeter

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