Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

DMJS Bowman, CA Kolden, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances and remaining uncertainties in resolving past and future climate effects on global fire activity

AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou - Current Climate Change Reports, 2016 - Springer
Fire is an integral component of the Earth system that will critically affect how terrestrial
carbon budgets and living systems respond to climate change. Paleo and observational …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal expansion of global wildland fire activity in response to climate change

M Senande-Rivera, D Insua-Costa… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global warming is expected to alter wildfire potential and fire season severity, but the
magnitude and location of change is still unclear. Here, we show that climate largely …

[HTML][HTML] Global pyrogeography: the current and future distribution of wildfire

MA Krawchuk, MA Moritz, MA Parisien, J Van Dorn… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is expected to alter the geographic distribution of wildfire, a complex abiotic
process that responds to a variety of spatial and environmental gradients. How future climate …

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

MA Moritz, MA Parisien, E Batllori, MA Krawchuk… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well‐being throughout
the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad …

Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century

O Pechony, DT Shindell - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Recent bursts in the incidence of large wildfires worldwide have raised concerns about the
influence climate change and humans might have on future fire activity. Comparatively little …

Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

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 …

Paleoecological perspectives on fire ecology: revisiting the fire-regime concept

C Whitlock, PE Higuera, DB McWethy… - The Open Ecology …, 2010 - benthamopen.com
Fire is well recognized as a key Earth system process, but its causes and influences vary
greatly across spatial and temporal scales. The controls of fire are often portrayed as a set of …

Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

LT Kelly, KM Giljohann, A Duane, N Aquilué… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Fire has shaped the diversity of life on Earth for millions of years. Variation
in fire regimes continues to be a source of biodiversity across the globe, and many plants …