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Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Fire is a complex Earth system phenomenon that fundamentally affects vegetation distributions, biogeochemical cycling, climate, and human society across most of Earth’s land surface.
Brendan M Rogers +4 more
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Ecological Processes, 2020 Background Wildfires play a key role in shaping Mediterranean landscapes and ecosystems and in impacting species dynamics. Numerous studies have investigated the wildfire occurrences and the influence of their drivers in many countries of the ...
Marina D’Este +8 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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Earth's Future, 2022 Fire regimes are influenced by both exogenous drivers (e.g., increases in atmospheric CO2 and climate change) and endogenous drivers (e.g., vegetation and soil/litter moisture), which constrain fuel loads and fuel aridity.
Jianning Ren +7 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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Improving prediction and assessment of global fires using multilayer neural networks
Scientific Reports, 2021 Fires determine vegetation patterns, impact human societies, and are a part of complex feedbacks into the global climate system. Empirical and process-based models differ in their scale and mechanistic assumptions, giving divergent predictions of fire ...
Jaideep Joshi, Raman Sukumar
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Cambodia has the most fires per area in Southeast Asia, with fire activity have significantly increased since the early 2000s. Wildfire occurrences are multi-factorial in nature, and isolating the relative contribution of each driver remains a challenge.
Min-Sung Sim +3 more
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Quantifying the drivers and predictability of seasonal changes in African fire
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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How climate change and fire exclusion drive wildfire regimes at actionable scales
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Extreme wildfires are increasing in frequency globally, prompting new efforts to mitigate risk. The ecological appropriateness of risk mitigation strategies, however, depends on what factors are driving these increases. While regional syntheses attribute
Erin J Hanan +8 more
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Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2023 The occurrence of forest fires is determined by fuel, climate and ignition sources at different temporal and spatial scales. However, most analyses are performed only on a single scale, and few comprehensive statistical analyses elaborate on the cross ...
Shuo Zhen +4 more
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