Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

DMJS Bowman, CA Kolden, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

Wildfires and global change

JG Pausas, JE Keeley - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
No single factor produces wildfires; rather, they occur when fire thresholds (ignitions, fuels,
and drought) are crossed. Anomalous weather events may lower these thresholds and …

Central and south america

EJ Castellanos, MF Lemos, L Astigarraga, N Chacón… - 2022‏ - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …

Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed

F Moreira, D Ascoli, H Safford, MA Adams… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Substantial and increasing global losses of timber-producing forest due to wildfires

CG Bousfield, DB Lindenmayer, DP Edwards - Nature Geoscience, 2023‏ - nature.com
One-third of global forest is harvested for timber, generating~ US $1.5 trillion annually. High-
severity wildfires threaten this timber production. Here we combine global maps of logging …

Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem

M Nyström, JB Jouffray, AV Norström, B Crona… - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
Much of the Earth's biosphere has been appropriated for the production of harvestable
biomass in the form of food, fuel and fibre. Here we show that the simplification and …

Scientists' warning on wildfire—a Canadian perspective

SCP Coogan, FN Robinne, P Jain… - Canadian Journal of …, 2019‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Recently, the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: a Second Notice was issued in
response to ongoing and largely unabated environmental degradation due to anthropogenic …

Identifying and managing disturbance‐stimulated flammability in woody ecosystems

D Lindenmayer, P Zylstra - Biological Reviews, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many forest types globally have been subject to an increase in the frequency of, and area
burnt by, high‐severity wildfire. Here we explore the role that previous disturbance has …

High wildfire damage in interface communities in California

HA Kramer, MH Mockrin, PM Alexandre… - … journal of wildland …, 2019‏ - CSIRO Publishing
Globally, and in the US, wildfires pose increasing risk to people and their homes. Wildfire
management assumes that buildings burn primarily in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) …

Post-fire soil management

P Pereira, M Francos, EC Brevik, X Ubeda… - Current Opinion in …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Soils are an important natural capital and can be negatively affected by high severity fires.
The capacity of soil to recover from the degradation caused by fire disturbance depends on …