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Quantifying the drivers and predictability of seasonal changes in African fire [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Fire is an important component of many African ecosystems, but prediction of fire activity is challenging. Here, the authors use a statistical framework to assess the seasonal environmental drivers of African fire, which allow for a better prediction of ...
Yan Yu +7 more
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Fires and their key drivers in Mexico
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2023 Background Despite the regional and global effects of biomass burning at national and pantropical scales, little effort has focused on determining the influence of climate and socioeconomic conditions on fire regimes in tropical regions. Aims
Laura E. Montoya +2 more
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Fire as a driver and mediator of predator–prey interactions
Biological Reviews, 2022 ABSTRACTBoth fire and predators have strong influences on the population dynamics and behaviour of animals, and the effects of predators may either be strengthened or weakened by fire. However, knowledge of how fire drives or mediates predator–prey interactions is fragmented and has not been synthesised.
Tim S. Doherty +12 more
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Climate drivers of the 2017 devastating fires in Portugal [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2019 AbstractA record 500,000 hectares burned in Portugal during the extreme wildfire season of 2017, with more than 120 human lives lost. Here we analyse the climatic factors responsible for the burned area (BA) from June to October series in Portugal for the period 1980–2017. Superposed onto a substantially stationary trend on BA data, strong oscillations
Marco Turco +6 more
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Fire in Semi-Arid Shrublands and Woodlands: Spatial and Temporal Patterns in an Australian Landscape
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Semi-arid landscapes are of interest to fire ecologists because they are generally located in the climatic transition zone between arid lands (where fires tend to be rare due to lack of fuel, but are enhanced following large rainfall episodes) and more ...
Eddie J. B. van Etten +3 more
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Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity
Biological Reviews, 2019 ABSTRACTMany terrestrial ecosystems are fire prone, such that their composition and structure are largely due to their fire regime. Regions subject to regular fire have exceptionally high levels of species richness and endemism, and fire has been proposed as a major driver of their diversity, within the context of climate, resource availability and ...
Tianhua He +2 more
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Drivers of collapse of fire‐killed trees
Austral Ecology, 2022 AbstractLarge quantities of dead wood can be generated by disturbances such as wildfires. Dead trees created by disturbances play many critical ecological roles in forest ecosystems globally. The ability of deadwood to serve its ecological roles is contingent, in part, on the length of time trees remain standing following disturbance.
David Lindenmayer +2 more
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Assessment of fire hazard in Southwestern Amazon
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023 Fires are among the main drivers of forest degradation in Amazonia, causing multiple socioeconomic and environmental damages. Although human-ignited sources account for most of the fire events in Amazonia, extended droughts may magnify their occurrence ...
Igor J. M. Ferreira +7 more
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Predicting Grassland Fire-Occurrence Probability in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
Remote Sensing, 2023 Fires greatly threaten the grassland ecosystem, human life, and economic development. However, since limited research focuses on grassland fire prediction, it is necessary to find a better method to predict the probability of grassland-fire occurrence ...
Chang Chang +6 more
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Fire and Its Interactions With Other Drivers Shape a Distinctive, Semi-Arid ‘Mallee’ Ecosystem
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Fire shapes ecosystems globally, including semi-arid ecosystems. In Australia, semi-arid ‘mallee’ ecosystems occur primarily across the southern part of the continent, forming an interface between the arid interior and temperate south.
Michael F. Clarke +19 more
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