Things are heating up in the Amazon as the burning season begins. In Brazil, a 30-year-old study of forest fragments is itself threatened by farming, logging and hunting, say William Laurance and Regina Luizão.
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Laurance, W., Luizão, R. Driving a wedge into the Amazon. Nature 448, 409–410 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448409a
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