Understanding fire regimes for a better Anthropocene

LT Kelly, MS Fletcher, IO Menor… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Fire is an integral part of the Earth System and humans have skillfully used fire for millennia.
Yet human activities are scaling up and reinforcing each other in ways that are reshaping …

Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the 5th version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)

Y Chen, J Hall, D Van Wees, N Andela… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Long-term records of burned area are needed to understand wildfire dynamics, assess fire
impacts on ecosystems and air quality, and improve fire forecasts. Here we fuse multiple …

Carbon uptake in Eurasian boreal forests dominates the high‐latitude net ecosystem carbon budget

JD Watts, M Farina, JS Kimball, LD Schiferl… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic‐boreal landscapes are experiencing profound warming, along with changes in
ecosystem moisture status and disturbance from fire. This region is of global importance in …

[PDF][PDF] Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

JK Shuman, JK Balch, RT Barnes, PE Higuera… - PNAS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have
harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of …

[HTML][HTML] Extratropical forests increasingly at risk due to lightning fires

TAJ Janssen, MW Jones, D Finney… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fires can be ignited by people or by natural causes, which are almost exclusively lightning
strikes. Discriminating between lightning and anthropogenic fires is paramount when …

Permafrost carbon: Progress on understanding stocks and fluxes across northern terrestrial ecosystems

CC Treat, AM Virkkala, E Burke… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Significant progress in permafrost carbon science made over the past decades include the
identification of vast permafrost carbon stocks, the development of new pan‐Arctic …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal variation characteristics of global fires and their emissions

H Fan, X Yang, C Zhao, Y Yang… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Intense regional fires are a common occurrence in the context of climate warming and have
progressively evolved into one of the major natural disasters in terrestrial ecosystems …

The net GHG balance and budget of the permafrost region (2000–2020) from ecosystem flux upscaling

J Ramage, MK Kuhn, A Virkkala, C Voigt… - Global …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The northern permafrost region has been projected to shift from a net sink to a net source of
carbon under global warming. However, estimates of the contemporary net greenhouse gas …

Bacterial Emission Factors: A Foundation for the Terrestrial-Atmospheric Modeling of Bacteria Aerosolized by Wildland Fires

LN Kobziar, P Lampman, A Tohidi… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Wildland fire is a major global driver in the exchange of aerosols between terrestrial
environments and the atmosphere. This exchange is commonly quantified using emission …

High-resolution data reveal a surge of biomass loss from temperate and Atlantic pine forests, contextualizing the 2022 fire season distinctiveness in France

L Vallet, M Schwartz, P Ciais, D Van Wees… - …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
The frequency and intensity of summer droughts and heat waves in Western Europe have
been increasing, raising concerns about the emergence of fire hazard in less fire-prone …