Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

The increasing global concern about wildfires, mostly caused by people, has triggered the
development of human-caused fire occurrence models in many countries. The premise is …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Despite the recognised importance of private land for biodiversity conservation, there has
been little research into systems of private protected areas at a country-wide level. Here I …

Disturbances, such as wildfires, are one of the main drivers of biodiversity dynamics, and
their frequency and intensity are expected to increase due to global change. Such …

Fires are a recurrent environmental and economic emergency throughout the world. Fire risk
analysis and forest fire risk zoning are important aspects of forest fire management. MODIS …

Fire activity has increased in western US aridland ecosystems due to increased human-
caused ignitions and the expansion of flammable exotic grasses. Because many desert …

Managing protected areas requires knowing what factors control fire ignitions and how likely
they are compared to non-protected ones. Here, we modelled fire ignition likelihood in west …

Introduction Forest fires seriously threaten the safety of forest resources and human beings.
Establishing an accurate forest fire forecasting model is crucial for forest fire management …

Habitat has changed unfavorably during the past 150 y for the desert tortoise Gopherus
agassizii, a federally threatened species with declining populations in the Mojave Desert …