Barely Significant

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A2018 discussed various indicators of decoupling between deforestation and fire: (i) an increasing trend in the annual number of active fires detected per unit area deforested; (ii) a decreasing trend in the coefficient of determination (R 2 ) of the regressions of active fire counts on deforestation rates, across phases of the Plan for Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Amazon (PPCDAm); (iii) lack of a significant trend in CO emissions; (iv) increasing exacerbation of fire season severity in drought years, namely in the extent of area burned by forest understory fires.