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Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release

Nature Climate Change, 2023
Northern peatland carbon sink plays a vital role in climate regulation. Here, the authors show that wildfire reduced peatland carbon uptake and enhanced emissions from degraded peatlands; climate change impacts accelerated carbon losses where increased ...
S. Wilkinson, R. Andersen, P. Moore, S. Davidson, G. Granath, J. Waddington   +5 more
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Autonomous Satellite Wildfire Detection Using Hyperspectral Imagery and Neural Networks: A Case Study on Australian Wildfire

Remote Sensing, 2023
One of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals is climate action (SDG-13), and wildfire is among the catastrophic events that both impact climate change and are aggravated by it.
Kathiravan Thangavel, Dario Spiller, R. Sabatini, S. Amici, S. T. Sasidharan, Haytham Fayek, P. Marzocca   +6 more
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A recent review of fire behavior and fire effects on native vegetation in Central Chile

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Central Chile experienced a very extended and devastating fire season during 2016–17. After 3 years, here we present the results of an analysis of behavior of the wildfires occurred in that season.
Miguel Castillo S, Álvaro Plaza V, Roberto Garfias S   +2 more
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Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
During the last decades, climate and land use changes led to an increased prevalence of megafires in Mediterranean-type climate regions (MCRs). Here, we argue that current wildfire management policies in MCRs are destined to fail.
F. Moreira, D. Ascoli, H. Safford, M. A. Adams, J. M. Moreno, J. Pereira, F. Catry, J. Armesto, W. Bond, Mauro E. González, T. Curt, N. Koutsias, L. McCaw, O. Price, J. Pausas, E. Rigolot, S. Stephens, Ç. Tavşanoğlu, V. Vallejo, B. V. van Wilgen, G. Xanthopoulos, P. Fernandes   +21 more
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Variation of lightning-ignited wildfire patterns under climate change

Nature Communications, 2023
Lightning is the main precursor of natural wildfires and Long-Continuing-Current (LCC) lightning flashes are proposed to be the main igniters of lightning-ignited wildfires (LIW).
F. J. Pérez-Invernón, F. Gordillo‐Vázquez, H. Huntrieser, P. Jöckel   +3 more
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ARIMA-based forecasting of the effects of wildfire on the increasing tree cover trend and recurrence interval of woody encroachment in grazing land

Resources, Environment and Sustainability, 2022
Invasive tree removal from grazing lands using costly brush management practices is widely employed. However, wildfire-like natural events can prevent the increasing trend of woody tree encroachment in grazing lands at no cost, instead of cost-oriented ...
Mazbahul Ahamad
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Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function

Nature Microbiology, 2022
Forest soil microbiomes have crucial roles in carbon storage, biogeochemical cycling and rhizosphere processes. Wildfire season length, and the frequency and size of severe fires have increased owing to climate change. Fires affect ecosystem recovery and
A. Nelson, Adrienne B. Narrowe, C. Rhoades, T. Fegel, R. Daly, Holly K. Roth, R. Chu, K. Amundson, Robert B. Young, A. Steindorff, S. Mondo, I. Grigoriev, A. Salamov, T. Borch, M. Wilkins   +14 more
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Multiple-Scale Relationships between Vegetation, the Wildland–Urban Interface, and Structure Loss to Wildfire in California

Fire, 2021
Recent increases in destructive wildfires are driving a need for empirical research documenting factors that contribute to structure loss. Existing studies show that fire risk is complex and varies geographically, and the role of vegetation has been ...
Alexandra D. Syphard, Heather Rustigian-Romsos, Jon E. Keeley   +2 more
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Global increase in wildfire potential from compound fire weather and drought

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2022
Wildfire can cause significant adverse impacts to society and the environment. Weather and climate play an important role in modulating wildfire activity.
Doug Richardson, A. Black, Damien B. Irving, R. Matear, D. Monselesan, J. Risbey, D. Squire, C. Tozer   +7 more
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Pine Species That Support Crown Fire Regimes Have Lower Leaf-Level Terpene Contents Than Those Native to Surface Fire Regimes

Fire, 2020
Fire is increasingly being recognised as an important evolutionary driver in fire-prone environments. Biochemical traits such as terpene (volatile isoprenoid) concentration are assumed to influence plant flammability but have often been overlooked as ...
Rebecca A Dewhirst, Nicholas Smirnoff, Claire M Belcher   +2 more
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