Reviews & syntheses: arctic fire regimes and emissions in the 21st century

JL McCarty, J Aalto, VV Paunu, SR Arnold… - Biogeosciences …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
In recent years, the pan-Arctic region has experienced increasingly extreme fire seasons.
Fires in the northern high latitudes are driven by current and future climate change, lightning …

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 …

Fire-regime changes in Canada over the last half century

CC Hanes, X Wang, P Jain, MA Parisien… - Canadian Journal of …, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
Contemporary fire regimes of Canadian forests have been well documented based on forest
fire records between the late 1950s to 1990s. Due to known limitations of fire datasets, an …

Climatic thresholds shape northern high‐latitude fire regimes and imply vulnerability to future climate change

AM Young, PE Higuera, PA Duffy, FS Hu - Ecography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Boreal forests and arctic tundra cover 33% of global land area and store an estimated 50%
of total soil carbon. Because wildfire is a key driver of terrestrial carbon cycling, increasing …

A refinement of models projecting future Canadian fire regimes using homogeneous fire regime zones

Y Boulanger, S Gauthier… - Canadian Journal of Forest …, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
Broad-scale fire regime modelling is frequently based on large ecological and (or)
administrative units. However, these units may not capture spatial heterogeneity in fire …

Climate‐induced changes in host tree–insect phenology may drive ecological state‐shift in boreal forests

DS Pureswaran, L De Grandpré, D Paré, A Taylor… - Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is altering insect disturbance regimes via temperature‐mediated
phenological changes and trophic interactions among host trees, herbivorous insects, and …

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the managed Canadian boreal forest

S Gauthier, P Bernier, PJ Burton… - Environmental …, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
Climate change is affecting Canada's boreal zone, which includes most of the country's
managed forests. The impacts of climate change in this zone are expected to be pervasive …

Rapid 21st century climate change projected to shift composition and growth of Canada's Acadian Forest Region

AR Taylor, Y Boulanger, DT Price, D Cyr… - Forest ecology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The impact of climate change on forests is expected to vary globally and regionally.
Canada's Acadian Forest Region lies in the transition between the North American boreal …

Impact of climate change on the vulnerability of drinking water intakes in a northern region

B Leveque, JB Burnet, S Dorner, F Bichai - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change impacts the vulnerability of drinking water sources to contamination and
water shortages. This review highlights key risk factors along the impact chain of climate …

Quantifying influences and relative importance of fire weather, topography, and vegetation on fire size and fire severity in a Chinese boreal forest landscape

L Fang, J Yang, J Zu, G Li, J Zhang - Forest Ecology and Management, 2015 - Elsevier
Fire size and fire severity are two crucial parameters for describing fire regimes that reflect
spatial heterogeneities of fire spread behavior and its interaction with the environment …