Global fire size distribution is driven by human impact and climate

S Hantson, S Pueyo, E Chuvieco - Global Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim In order to understand fire's impacts on vegetation dynamics, it is crucial that the
distribution of fire sizes be known. We approached this distribution using a power‐law …

Wildfires, complexity, and highly optimized tolerance

MA Moritz, ME Morais, LA Summerell… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Recent, large fires in the western United States have rekindled debates about fire
management and the role of natural fire regimes in the resilience of terrestrial ecosystems …

Characterizing wildfire regimes in the United States

BD Malamud, JDA Millington… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Wildfires statistics for the conterminous United States (US) are examined in a spatially and
temporally explicit manner. We use a high-resolution data set consisting of 88,916 US …

Cross-scale analysis of fire regimes

DA Falk, C Miller, D McKenzie, AE Black - Ecosystems, 2007 - Springer
Cross-scale spatial and temporal perspectives are important for studying contagious
landscape disturbances such as fire, which are controlled by myriad processes operating at …

Determining the use of Sentinel-2A MSI for wildfire burning & severity detection

C Amos, GP Petropoulos… - International journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Accurate, reliable, and timely burn severity maps are necessary for planning, managing and
rehabilitation after wildfires. This study aimed at assessing the ability of the Sentinel-2A …

Spatial patterns of fire occurrence in Catalonia, NE, Spain

R Díaz-Delgado, F Lloret, X Pons - Landscape Ecology, 2004 - Springer
In this paper, we analyse spatial patterns of fire occurrence in Catalonia (NE Spain) during
1975–98. Fire scar maps, discriminated by means of 30–60 m resolution remote sensing …

Daily synoptic conditions associated with large fire occurrence in Mediterranean France: evidence for a wind-driven fire regime

J Ruffault, V Moron, RM Trigo, T Curt - International Journal of …, 2017 - hal.science
Changes in wildfire activity in the Mediterranean area over recent decades increase the
need for a better understanding of the fire weather relationships and for the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Human activity and demographics drive the fire regime in a highly developed European boreal region

J Sjöström, A Granström - Fire Safety Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Organization of successful wildfire prevention and suppression require detailed information
on ignition causes, size distributions and relations to weather. From a large and highly …

Population ecology in spatially heterogeneous environments

L Fahrig, WK Nuttle - Ecosystem function in heterogeneous landscapes, 2005 - Springer
Historically, population ecologists have equated environmental spatial heterogeneity with
habitat spatial structure. Early models represented habitat spatial structure simply as …

Landslides, forest fires, and earthquakes: examples of self-organized critical behavior

DL Turcotte, BD Malamud - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2004 - Elsevier
Per Bak conceived self-organized criticality as an explanation for the behavior of the
sandpile model. Subsequently, many cellular automata models were found to exhibit similar …