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Climate Change and Fire

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Global rise in forest fire emissions linked to climate change in the extratropics

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Climate change increases fire-favorable weather in forests, but fire trends are also affected by multiple other controlling factors that are difficult to untangle. We use machine learning to systematically group forest ecoregions into 12 global forest pyromes, with each showing distinct sensitivities to climatic, human, and vegetation controls.

Climate change mitigation-adaptation relationships in forest management: perspectives from the fire-prone American West

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Minimizing negative impacts of climate change on human and natural systems requires mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to new climate conditions. Forestry provides grounds to study the relationship between these two concepts: carbon flux and storage are ecosystem services of forests, while forests are growing increasingly vulnerable to climate-driven disturbances.