Sofowote, U., Dempsey, F., 2015. Impacts of forest fires on ambient near-real-time PM2.5 in Ontario, Canada: meteorological analyses and source apportionment of the July 2011-2013 episodes. Atmos. Pollut. Res. 6, 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.5094/APR. 2015.001....
Indonesia saw annual forest fires which mostly were man made, conducted by plantation owners to expand their plantation areas in those provinces. They simply torched up woods in the forests in doing so. The nation saw deadly massive forest fire in 2015 that took up 2.6 million hectares of fore...
with at least 23 deaths. More than 400 fires, many of them intentional, burned vast regions of plantations and woods. High temperatures and winds fuelled the fires in an area affected by a pervasive drought that has lasted more than a decade. The National Air Quality Information Syste...
forest firesuncertaintyThe system for the regional assessment of a forest carbon budget is expanded with the procedures of uncertainty calculations. The forest carbon balance of the Russian Federation for 1988-2009 is assessed. The impact of fire on the forest carbon budget is estimated using both ...
Most of the research about the effects of the release of carbon and other chemicals to the atmosphere during forest fires focuses on emissions from crown fires or slash fires in which a high percentage of the fine fuels are burned. However, in many temperate and boreal conifer ecosystems, surf...
forest and peatland fires not only lead to spikes in air pollution over the short-term, but also increase the population long-term exposure to PM2.5, which is known to have a greater impact on mortality than short-term episodes [8,9]. Several studies have analyzed health effects of Indonesi...
Boreal forest fires are expected to increase in future decades as a consequence of longer growing seasons and a tendency towards greater mid-summer drought stress. These fires have the potential to accelerate changes in species composition and may exert both positive and negative feedbacks through int...
Relative to long-undisturbed forest (167 years old), sites subject to multiple fires, clearcut logging or salvage logging were characterized by soils with significantly lower values of a range of ecologically important measures at multiple depths, including available phosphorus and nitrate. Disturbance ...
Using a WRF-SMOKE-CMAQ modeling framework, we investigate the impacts of smoke from prescribed fires on model performance, regional and local air quality, health impacts, and visibility in protected natural environments using three different prescribed fire emission scenarios - 100% fire, no fire, ...
In response to the important benefits forests provide, there is a growing effort to reforest the world. Past policies and current commitments indicate that many of these forests will be plantations. Since plantations often replace more carbon-rich or biodiverse land covers, this approach to forest...