Relationship between Deforestation and Fire in the Chaco.

Related Publication: Matthias Baumann et al. (2025) Fire dynamics in the South American Chaco and their link to agriculture and drought. Nature Sustainability (Submitted for Review)

Class Description

(A) Proportion of area in 1×1 km² cells that experienced woodland loss vs. burning. The individual colors represent combinations of percentiles (e.g., 20%, 40%, etc.) of each variable.
(B) Proportion of fires related to clearing 1986-2023 (i.e., fire in natural vegetation with agriculture subsequently established).
(C) Proportion of fires related to management from 1986-2023 (i.e., fires on croplands or pastures).
(D) Proportion of other fires from 1986-2023 (i.e., fires in natural vegetation without subsequent agricultural expansion).

Data Availability

Code that was generated to produce the burned area maps, and to do the analysis is available at https://scm.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/publications/baumann_chaco-fire.
The burned area maps are maintained at the Conservation Biogeography Lab, Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin and available for non-commercial uses upon request.
Please contact Matthias Baumann for more information.


Webmapping: Ruben Butzer
Last Update: 17.12.2025