A global perspective on microplastics

RC Hale, ME Seeley, MJ La Guardia… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Society has become increasingly reliant on plastics since commercial production began in
about 1950. Their versatility, stability, light weight, and low production costs have fueled …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment. Retrospective analysis and current trends

AI Filkov, T Ngo, S Matthews, S Telfer… - Journal of safety science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract 2019/20 Australia's bushfire season (Black Summer fires) occurred during a period
of record breaking temperatures and extremely low rainfall. To understand the impact 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 …

Wildfires as an ecosystem service

JG Pausas, JE Keeley - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires are often perceived as destructive disturbances, but we propose that when
integrating evolutionary and socioecological factors, fires in most ecosystems can be …

A remote sensing approach to map** fire severity in south-eastern Australia using sentinel 2 and random forest

R Gibson, T Danaher, W Hehir, L Collins - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate and consistent broad-scale map** of fire severity is an important resource for fire
management as well as fire-related ecological and climate change research. Remote …

Climate change and California's terrestrial biodiversity

S Harrison, J Franklin, RR Hernandez… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
In this review and synthesis, we argue that California is an important test case for the nation
and world because terrestrial biodiversity is very high, present and anticipated threats to …

Climate change impact on future wildfire danger and activity in southern Europe: a review

J Dupuy, H Fargeon, N Martin-StPaul, F Pimont… - Annals of Forest …, 2020 - Springer
Key message Wildfire danger and burnt areas should increase over the century in southern
Europe, owing to climate warming. Fire-prone area expansion to the north and to …

Twenty-first century California, USA, wildfires: fuel-dominated vs. wind-dominated fires

JE Keeley, AD Syphard - Fire Ecology, 2019 - Springer
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century California, USA, has experienced a
substantial increase in the frequency of large wildfires, often with extreme impacts on people …

Towards an understanding of the evolutionary role of fire in animals

JG Pausas, CL Parr - Evolutionary Ecology, 2018 - Springer
Wildfires underpin the dynamics and diversity of many ecosystems worldwide, and plants
show a plethora of adaptive traits for persisting recurrent fires. Many fire-prone ecosystems …