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 …

Effects of fire on grassland soils and water: A review

GD Neary, MJ Leonard - Grasses and grassland aspects, 2020 - books.google.com
Grasslands occur on all of the continents. They collectively constitute the largest ecosystem
in the world, making up 40.5% of the terrestrial land area, excluding Greenland and …

Human-related ignitions increase the number of large wildfires across US ecoregions

RC Nagy, E Fusco, B Bradley, JT Abatzoglou, J Balch - Fire, 2018 - mdpi.com
Large fires account for the majority of burned area and are an important focus of fire
management. However,'large'is typically defined by a fire size threshold, minimizing the …

Saving imperiled grassland biomes by recoupling fire and grazing: a case study from the Great Plains

BP Wilcox, SD Fuhlendorf, JW Walker… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Woody plant encroachment–the conversion of open grasslands and savannas to woodlands–
represents one of the gravest threats to grassland biomes worldwide. This is especially true …

Probability of compound climate extremes in a changing climate: A copula-based study of hot, dry, and windy events in the central United States

A Tavakol, V Rahmani… - Environmental research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate extreme events exert disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and humankind.
Focusing on univariate statistics to estimate the harm from compound extreme events …

Recent wildfires in Central Chile: Detecting links between burned areas and population exposure in the wildland urban interface

P Sarricolea, R Serrano-Notivoli, M Fuentealba… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wildfires are gaining importance in the Mediterranean regions owing to climate change and
landscape changes due to the increasing closeness between urban areas and forests prone …

Simulating the transport and rupture of pollen in the atmosphere

T Subba, Y Zhang, AL Steiner - Journal of Advances in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pollen, one type of primary biological aerosol particle (PBAP), is emitted from the terrestrial
biosphere and can undergo physical changes in the atmosphere via particle rupture. To …

Influence of uncertainties in burned area estimates on modeled wildland fire PM2. 5 and ozone pollution in the contiguous US

SN Koplitz, CG Nolte, GA Pouliot, JM Vukovich… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wildland fires are a major source of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5), one of the most harmful
ambient pollutants for human health globally. To represent the influence of wildland fire …

A framework for sustainable management of ecosystem services and disservices in perennial grassland agroecosystems

S Paudel, AB Cobb, EH Boughton, S Spiegal… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing demand for agricultural products is driving grassland management intensification
with subsequent impacts on ecosystem services and disservices. Key questions related to …

Shifting avian spatial regimes in a changing climate

CP Roberts, CR Allen, DG Angeler… - Nature Climate Change, 2019 - nature.com
In the present era of rapid global change, development of early warnings of ecological
regime shifts is a major focus in ecology. Identifying and tracking shifts in spatial regimes is a …