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Over the 4.5-billion-year history of our planet, the composition and chemistry of the atmosphere, as well as the climate of our planet, have been affected by the production of atmospheric gases within the biosphere. These gases are produced by a variety of biological processes, including photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, nitrification, denitrification, and methanogenesis. Recent research has identified another biospheric process that has both instantaneous and longer-term effects on the production of atmospheric gases—this process is biomass burning. The topic of biomass burning has been the subject of no less than six treatises over the past six years (Levine 1991; Crutzen and Goldammer 1993, Goldammer and Furyaev 1996; Levine 1996a,b; van Wilgen et al. 1997) and continues to be an active area of multidisciplinary research.
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Levine, J.S., Cofer, W.R. (2000). Boreal Forest Fire Emissions and the Chemistry of the Atmosphere. In: Kasischke, E.S., Stocks, B.J. (eds) Fire, Climate Change, and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest. Ecological Studies, vol 138. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21629-4_3
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