Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States

TN Wasserman, SE Mueller - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Increases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in
recent decades across the western United States. Climate change is expected to continue to …

Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies

KH Erb, S Luyssaert, P Meyfroidt… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the light of daunting global sustainability challenges such as climate change, biodiversity
loss and food security, improving our understanding of the complex dynamics of the Earth …

Agriculture, forestry and other land uses (chapter 7)

GJ Nabuurs, R Mrabet, A Abu Hatab, M Bustamante… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector encompasses managed
ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while delivering food, wood and …

Warmer and drier fire seasons contribute to increases in area burned at high severity in western US forests from 1985 to 2017

SA Parks, JT Abatzoglou - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Increases in burned area across the western United States (US) since the mid‐1980s have
been widely documented and linked partially to climate factors, yet evaluations of trends in …

Contemporary wildfires are more severe compared to the historical reference period in western US dry conifer forests

SA Parks, LM Holsinger, K Blankenship… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dry conifer forests in the western US historically experienced frequent fire prior to European
American colonization. Mean fire return interval ranged from about 5–35 years, with the …

Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA

JR Marlon, PJ Bartlein, DG Gavin, CJ Long… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
Understanding the causes and consequences of wildfires in forests of the western United
States requires integrated information about fire, climate changes, and human activity on …

Europe faces up to tenfold increase in extreme fires in a warming climate

S El Garroussi, F Di Giuseppe, C Barnard… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
This study quantifies how changes in temperature and precipitation would influence the
intensity and duration of extreme fires across Europe. The analysis explores the impact of a …

Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States

DL Swain, JT Abatzoglou, C Kolden, K Shive… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Escalating wildfire activity in the western United States has accelerated adverse societal
impacts. Observed increases in wildfire severity and impacts to communities have diverse …

Both topography and climate affected forest and woodland burn severity in two regions of the western US, 1984 to 2006

GK Dillon, ZA Holden, P Morgan, MA Crimmins… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a keystone process in many ecosystems of western North America. Severe fires kill
and consume large amounts of above‐and belowground biomass and affect soils, resulting …

Direct and indirect climate controls predict heterogeneous early-mid 21st century wildfire burned area across western and boreal North America

T Kitzberger, DA Falk, AL Westerling, TW Swetnam - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Predicting wildfire under future conditions is complicated by complex interrelated drivers
operating across large spatial scales. Annual area burned (AAB) is a useful index of global …