Health costs of wildfire smoke to rise under climate change

H Clarke, B Cirulis, N Borchers-Arriagada… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
The global health burden from wildfire smoke is expected to worsen under climate change,
yet we lack quantitative estimates of the economic costs of increased mortality and hospital …

Shifting fire regimes cause continent-wide transformation of threatened species habitat

TS Doherty, KJ Macdonald… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Human actions are causing widespread increases in fire size, frequency, and severity in
diverse ecosystems globally. This alteration of fire regimes is considered a threat to …

Like a moth to a flame: the effect of megafires on pollinators and pollination systems

T Latty, C Forster - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Fire is a natural part of many ecosystems, however, as a consequence of climate change,
unusually large 'megafires' are expected to increase in occurrence. Given their large spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Short-interval, high-severity wildfires cause declines in soil seed bank diversity in montane forests of south-eastern Australia

E Duivenvoorden, B Wagner, CR Nitschke… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildfires in forested ecosystems are increasing in severity and extent. The adaptations many
plants have acquired in response to their natural fire regime may not be sufficient to allow …

Aerodynamic effects cause higher forest evapotranspiration and water yield reductions after wildfires in tall forests

N Meili, J Beringer, J Zhao, S Fatichi - Global Change Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires are increasing in frequency, intensity, and extent globally due to climate change
and they can alter forest composition, structure, and function. The destruction and …

Late Holocene fire and precipitation history of the Kashmir Himalaya: Inferences from black carbon in lake sediments

S Verma, A Rahman, RA Shah, RK Agrawal… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Throughout the human history, fire, climate, and human advancement had a very
complicated relationship. Scientists have explored this relationship using different proxies …

Do Tasmanian devil declines impact ecosystem function?

T Stephenson, T Hudiburg, JM Mathias… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tasmanian eucalypt forests are among the most carbon‐dense in the world, but projected
climate change could destabilize this critical carbon sink. While the impact of abiotic factors …

Critical climate thresholds for fire in wet, temperate forests

RG Benyon, A Inbar, GJ Sheridan, PNJ Lane - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate models predict more frequent droughts and more severe fire weather. Wildfires in
wet forests, while historically uncommon, can have catastrophic impacts on forest values …

Impacts of fire on soil respiration and its components: A global meta-analysis

H Gui, J Wang, M Hu, Z Zhou, S Wan - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023 - Elsevier
As a general disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, fire can have far-reaching consequences
on the carbon (C) cycle. Although soil respiration (SR) is important in regulating atmospheric …