Interactive Map: Major Forest Fires Across CanadaGlobal Edmonton
Deforestation rates across the Amazon have spiked this year, driving the devastating blazes. Our maps show the story.
Wildfires.Over the course of a week, monitor the news media, identify the number of forest fires that you learn of, and determine where they are occurring. Using a map of your area of the world, make a note of where the wildfires occur. Are the fires clustered or do they seem randomly...
Fig. 1. Study region of northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Canada, including Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP – grey outline). Blue points indicate sampled sites, orange shapes indicate sampled fires, and grey shapes indicate other 2014 fires in the region. Inset indicates relative...
(*The LiDAR study sites are marked on the map ingreen) 5 Malone Fire Tower One of the biggest legacies of the PRF is the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) that was established there. This system is used widely across Canada and globally to manage forest fires. Take a ...
Understanding pre-1850s fire history and its effect on forest structure can provide insights useful for fire managers in developing plans to moderate fire hazards in the face of forecasted climate change. While climate clearly plays a substantial role in
the latest digital Köppen-Geiger world map http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/present.htm; global map of planting years https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/A_global_map_of_planting_years_of_plantations/19070084/1; forest cover change data of Canada https://opendata.nfis.org/mapserver...
A conceptual system dynamic model of the impact of future climate change on fire risk in the Nova Scotian Acadian Forest Region (NS AFR) was developed, cla
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...