Forest fires in Canada are directly influenced by the state of the climate system. The strong connection between climate and fire, along with the dynamic nature of the climate system, causes the extent, severity
2,3. The average forest fire size in Canada, the USA and Australia has doubled or even tripled in recent decades4,5. In return, forest fires feed back to climate by modulating land–atmospheric carbon, nitrogen, aerosol, energy and water fluxes6,7,8. However...
The boreal forest is the largest forest region in Canada, occupying approximately 315 mill. ha. Within this forest region long-term average annual area burned is 1.3 mill. ha, with extreme fire yearsbeing common, covering up to 7 million ha in a single fire season. Only 2% to 3% of thos...
Natural Resources Canada estimates that Canada is home to about 9% of the world's forests and faces frequent forest fire (Coogan et al., 2021), particularly in the boreal region (Parisien et al., 2020), which contains the majority of the nation's forests (https://natural-resources.canada...
Fig. 1: The response of forest fire activity to VPD in four continental forest biomes. a Boreal forests and taiga in Canada (n = 1,657,115). b Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests in Australia (n = 580,200). c Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests in northern Sout...
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Canadawide satellite burned area was similar, but consistently smaller by comparison to statistics compiled by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (by 17% in 1998, 16% in 1999, and 3% in 2000).doi:10.1080/10106040308542271Fraser, R. H....
Forest fires Fire danger assessment Integrated fire danger 1. Introduction In recent years, major wildfires in Australia, Brazil, California and Siberia provided evidence that wildfire occurrence and severity are increasing as the climate changes (Abatzoglou and Williams, 2016; Mariana et al., 2018)...
The conservation and restoration of forest ecosystems require detailed knowledge of the native plant compositions. Here, we map global forest tree composition and assess the impacts of historical forest cover loss and climate change on trees. The global
Editor-in-Chief View full editorial board Claudia Wagner-Riddle, PhD University of Guelph School of Environmental Sciences, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Articles Latest published Top cited Most downloaded Most popular Research articleAbstract only Regulation effect of planted forests on land surface temperature...