Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society

By B. Rogers, Jennifer K. Balch, Scott J. Goetz, C. Lehmann, M. Turetsky. Environmental Research Letters, 2020

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Fire is a complex Earth system phenomenon that fundamentally affects vegetation distributions, biogeochemical cycling, climate, and human society across most of Earth’s land surface. Fire regimes are currently changing due to multiple interacting global change drivers, most notably climate change, land use, and direct human influences via ignition and suppression. It is therefore critical to better understand the drivers, patterns, and impacts of these changing fire regimes now and continuing into the future. Our review contributes to this focus issue by synthesizing results from 27 studies covering a broad range of topics. Studies are categorized into (i) Understanding contemporary fire patterns, drivers, and effects; (ii) Human influences on fire regimes; (iii) Changes in historical fire regimes; (iv) Future projections; (v) Novel techniques; and (vi) Reviews. We conclude with a discussion on progress made, major remaining research challenges, and recommended directions.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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Assessing changes in global fire regimes (2023, background): “More generally, fire frequency and severity are expected to decrease in fuel-limited ecosystems under drier conditions, while they should increase in ecosystems with ample humidity (Rogers et al., 2020).”