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Mark A. Cochrane, Mark D. Schulze, Fire as a Recurrent Event in Tropical Forests of the Eastern Amazon: Effects on Forest Structure, Biomass, and Species Composition, Biotropica, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 2-16
Cochrane et al. (Mon,) studied this question.