The incidence of forest fires is increasing year by year. Read here to know the cause, effects, and mitigation efforts for it. Wildfires are a natural occurrence within some forest ecosystems, but in a few years, the fires are becoming more extreme and widespread. Hotter and drier weather ca...
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In forest ecosystems of the Western U.S. our regressions explain 50-60% of the variance in annual area burned. Our results show that the predicted increase in future wild fires will have important consequences for U.S. ozone air quality and visibility....
The effects of forest fires on the concentration and transport of radionuclides. In: Fire in ecosystems of boreal Eurasia (JG Goldammer, ed.), P. 476-480. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.Dusha-Gudym, S.I. 1996. The effects of forest fires on the concentration and ...
They have effects not only on the forest they burn but on wildlife and ecosystems downstream. Sabino Canyon National Park . Though fires can be beneficial by returning valuable nutrients to the soil; fire also wreaks havoc on native fishes and plants. They cause a drastic sediment flux in smal...
(wUS), whereby past fire effects limited future fire growth and severity. Over millennia, reburns created heterogenous patchworks of vegetation and fuels that provided avenues and impediments to the flow of future fires, and feedbacks to future fire event sizes and their severity patterns. These ...
In the boreal zone of Canada, pest-caused timber losses may be as much as 1.3–2.0 times the mean annual depletions due to fires. Pests are thus major, but consistently overlooked forest ecosystem components that have manifold consequences to the structure and functions of future forests. Global...
Forest degradation, together with deforestation, are placed second to burning of fossil fuels in terms of contributing to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions [81]; a key driver of global climate change [44]. Deforestation, forest degradation and peat land fires accounted for around 15% of global ant...
in forest disturbances beyond the current levels were found in their simulations. Damage fromforest fireswas particularly estimated to increase on the Iberian Peninsula, while bark beetle damage increased most strongly in the Alps. Wind damage would be seen to rise most notably in Central and ...