FIRE risk assessmentFIRE weatherCLUSTER pineMOISTUREWILDFIRESThe Canadian Fire Weather Index System (CFWIS), empirically developed for forests in Canada, estimates the fuel moisture content ( m f ) at different depths and loads through meteorological parameters. While it is often suggested...
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 o
Peatland wildfires in the Lower Cretaceous Damoguaihe Formation, Hailar Basin, Northeast China Cretaceous Research, Volume 150, 2023, Article 105578 Zewei Wang,…, Bangjun Liu Show 3 more articles Article Metrics Citations Citation Indexes56 Policy Citations8 Captures Readers172 Mentions News Mentions...
This adjustment shows that the increase in the risk of drought with warming had been underestimated previously. Drought can deteriorate the soil [16], accelerate soil erosion [17], set the stage for wildfires [18,19], and give rise to outbreaks of insect pests adapted to drought conditions (...
Submission received: 18 September 2023/Revised: 13 October 2023/Accepted: 20 October 2023/Published: 24 October 2023 (This article belongs to the Special IssueClimate Change Risk and Climate Action) Downloadkeyboard_arrow_down Browse Figures
The primary drivers of boreal ecosystem dynamics are wildfires, alongside the secondary drivers of insects, diseases, and their interactions [13]. Natural boreal forests, therefore, are not only composed of young postfire stands but also include significant proportions of old-growth stands ...