Past fires, forest composition, and carbon in vegetation and soils of intact Amazonian forests

Amazon Past Fire Project is a large-scale study assessing the fire history, soil, and vegetation of structurally intact forest plots across the Amazon Basin. The project aims to assess whether the observed variation in forest dynamics and composition of permanent, long-term plots with no history of recent fire across Amazonia is influenced by a response to past disturbance by historical fire. The collection consists of datasets of radiocarbon dates from charcoal from soil archives and collected from soil, tree census, soil carbon and soil pyrogenic carbon (PyC), and charcoal reflectance.