TY - JOUR
T1 - Focus on changing fire regimes
T2 - interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society
AU - Rogers, Brendan M.
AU - Balch, Jennifer K.
AU - Goetz, Scott J.
AU - Lehmann, Caroline E.R.
AU - Turetsky, Merritt
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the ERL editors for encouraging this focus issue on changing fire regimes, and the individual study authors for contributing. BMR and SJG were funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE grants NNX15AU56A and NNX17AE44G).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Fire is a complex Earth system phenomenon that fundamentally affects vegetation distributions, biogeochemical cycling, climate, and human society across most of Earth's land surface. Fire regimes are currently changing due to multiple interacting global change drivers, most notably climate change, land use, and direct human influences via ignition and suppression. It is therefore critical to better understand the drivers, patterns, and impacts of these changing fire regimes now and continuing into the future. Our review contributes to this focus issue by synthesizing results from 27 studies covering a broad range of topics. Studies are categorized into (i) Understanding contemporary fire patterns, drivers, and effects; (ii) Human influences on fire regimes; (iii) Changes in historical fire regimes; (iv) Future projections; (v) Novel techniques; and (vi) Reviews. We conclude with a discussion on progress made, major remaining research challenges, and recommended directions.
AB - Fire is a complex Earth system phenomenon that fundamentally affects vegetation distributions, biogeochemical cycling, climate, and human society across most of Earth's land surface. Fire regimes are currently changing due to multiple interacting global change drivers, most notably climate change, land use, and direct human influences via ignition and suppression. It is therefore critical to better understand the drivers, patterns, and impacts of these changing fire regimes now and continuing into the future. Our review contributes to this focus issue by synthesizing results from 27 studies covering a broad range of topics. Studies are categorized into (i) Understanding contemporary fire patterns, drivers, and effects; (ii) Human influences on fire regimes; (iii) Changes in historical fire regimes; (iv) Future projections; (v) Novel techniques; and (vi) Reviews. We conclude with a discussion on progress made, major remaining research challenges, and recommended directions.
KW - climate change
KW - feedbacks
KW - management
KW - society
KW - wildfire
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U2 - 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6d3a
DO - 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6d3a
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85082823625
SN - 1748-9318
VL - 15
JO - Environmental Research Letters
JF - Environmental Research Letters
IS - 3
M1 - 030201
ER -