Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature

P Jain, D Castellanos-Acuna, SCP Coogan… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent increases in regional wildfire activity have been linked to climate change. Here, we
analyse trends in observed global extreme fire weather and their meteorological drivers from …

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 …

Mechanisms of forest resilience

DA Falk, PJ van Mantgem, JE Keeley, RM Gregg… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

Climate extremes and compound hazards in a warming world

A AghaKouchak, F Chiang, LS Huning… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Climate extremes threaten human health, economic stability, and the well-being of natural
and built environments (eg, 2003 European heat wave). As the world continues to warm …

US fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s

V Iglesias, JK Balch, WR Travis - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Recent fires have fueled concerns that regional and global warming trends are leading to
more extreme burning. We found compelling evidence that average fire events in regions of …

Observed impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in California

AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou, A Gershunov… - Earth's …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic
climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in California. During …

Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA

JE Halofsky, DL Peterson, BJ Harvey - Fire Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of …

Global emergence of anthropogenic climate change in fire weather indices

JT Abatzoglou, AP Williams… - Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in global fire activity are influenced by a multitude of factors including land‐
cover change, policies, and climatic conditions. This study uses 17 climate models to …