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...
Europe faces up to tenfold increase in extreme fires in a warming climate Siham El Garroussi Francesca Di Giuseppe Fredrik Wetterhall npj Climate and Atmospheric Science(2024) Rapid summer Russian Arctic sea-ice loss enhances the risk of recent Eastern Siberian wildfires ...
This map was used as basis for the human data layer in our model (Appendix A). 2.4. Lightning fires Lightning strikes are the only relevant natural cause of fire ignition in Europe (Conedera et al., 2006). In Austria, 15% of all forest fires are caused by lightning. During the ...
Specifically, overstory species, such as larch species are dominant in Eurasian boreal forest, can be resistant to surface fires through their fire adaptive traits of thick bark near the bottom of the stem and self-pruning (Kobayashi et al., 2007, Wirth, 2005). Whereas, the birch and aspen...
Forest fires are important factors that influence and restrict the development of forest ecosystems. In this paper, forest-fire-risk prediction was studied based on random forest (RF) and backpropagation neural network (BPNN) algorithms. The Heihe area of Heilongjiang Province is one of the key ...
Approximately 130 fires occur in the nature of Iran annually, leading to the burning of more than 5400 hectares of pastures and forests [40]. Fires burn more than 300 ha annually in the 1.2 million ha of temperate forest in the north of Iran [41]. The human factor plays a major role ...
Rainforests are also threatened by climate change, which is contributing to droughts in parts of the Amazon and Southeast Asia. Drought causes die-offs of trees and dries out leaf litter, increasing the risk of forest fires, which are often set by land developers, ranchers, plantation owners, ...
A thorough literature search would indicate the method has not previously been applied to forest fires. Support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and Kernel logistic regression (KLR) were used as benchmarks in the comparative evaluation. A fire inventory database for the study area ...
is used widely across Canada and globally to manage forest fires. Take a tour in the past and learn how this research began and how it has evolved into the system it is known today.(*There are 2 fire rating towers at PRF, Malone and Wylie, and are marked as ablue staron the map) ...
fires, characterized by a high spatial heterogeneity resulting from varying levels of fire severity on the predominantly forested landscape. We thus assessed the post-fire regeneration dynamics in Scots pine stands affected by a mixed-severity fire in the Western Alps (Italy) to answer the following...