Colombia: Identifying a Fire Ecology Research Agenda for Colombia
Jan 10, 2017
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Susana RodrĂguez-Buriticá, Mauricio Aguilar-Garavito, and Natalia Norden, Eos
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Over the years, isolated research efforts in Colombia have highlighted the ecological importance of natural wildfires in some areas and the risks of fire-driven biodiversity losses in others. However, these efforts do not form part of a consolidated research agenda on fire ecology. As a result, strategies to deal with wildfires are short-term attempts at damage control and contribute little to our understanding of fire as an integral part of Colombian ecosystems.