Societal Impact Statement Madagascar is famous for its unique forests and their fauna. Most
of the island is covered by flammable grassy ecosystems long considered to be of human …

Madagascar is the world's highest profile conservation priority. Yet the natural habitat of its
largest biome, the 200,000 km 2 Malagasy Central Highlands (MCH) remains one of the …

Natural and social scientists everywhere are struggling to understand how to proceed in the
face of continued biodiversity loss and the injustices brought upon people living in and …

Worldwide, large wildfires are becoming increasingly common, leading to economic
damages and threatening ecosystems and human health. Under future climate change …

For most of the 20th century, the hypothesis was accepted that Madagascar's extensive
grass‐dominated ecosystems were of anthropogenic origin, carved out of pristine forests …

Sedimentary charcoal records are widely used to reconstruct regional changes in fire
regimes through time in the geological past. Existing global compilations are not …

Quantification of land surface–atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO 2) and their trends
and uncertainties is essential for monitoring progress of the EU27+ UK bloc as it strives to …

Predicting the environmental impact of climate change in extremely sensitive areas, like
western Iberia, requires an understanding of the long-term interactions between climate and …

We co-designed an agent-based model of an Afroalpine grassland in Ethiopia that is
experiencing unwanted shrub encroachment. The goal was to enable managers of a …

Fires are a pervasive feature of the terrestrial biosphere and contribute large carbon
emissions within the earth system. Humans are responsible for the majority of fire ignitions …