The 2023 Canadian forest fires have been extreme in scale and intensity with more than seven times the average annual area burned compared to the previous four decades1. Here, we quantify the carbon emissions from these fires from May to September 2023 on the basis of inverse modelling of sate...
Risk of fire occurrence (and expected number of fires), an important part of overall fire danger, is explicitly addressed within the fire occurrence prediction (FOP) System, though no nationally consistent set of equations or methods have been published to date. Fig. 1 The Canadian Forest Fire...
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Fires can result in dramatic changes to carbon (C) stocks and can restructure plant and microbial communities, with long-lasting effects on ecosystem functions. We investigated wildfire effects on soil microbial communities (bacteria and fungi) in an extreme fire season in the northwestern Canadian ...
fuelbed composition and loading in a long-unburnedQuercus–Pinusmixedwood stand in Tennessee, USA. We sampled vegetation and fuels in two plots, one that experienced two prescribed fires (burned plot), and one fire-excluded plot directly adjacent (unburned plot). On the burned plot, we ...
Fires are the main natural disturbance in the study area, but scatteredAbies balsameastands have been subjected to spruce budworm outbreaks every 30–40 years during the last century (Bouchard et al.2007). The length of the fire cycle has been longer since the end of the Little Ice Age (18...
There were 230 lightning fires with an average of 14 ignitions per year, primarily in July, and only one winter ignition. Precipitation influenced the efficiency of lightning ignitions, particularly July precipitation. We found that negative polarity strikes caused the majority of ignitions. Pine ...
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