A human-driven decline in global burned area

By N. Andela, Douglas C. Morton, Louis Giglio, Yang Chen, G. Werf, P. Kasibhatla, Ruth S. DeFries, G. Collatz, S. Hantson, S. Kloster and 8 more. Science, 2017

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Assessing changes in global fire regimes (2023, background): “A second overall lesson is that knowledge of past fire regimes provides perspective on how climate, vegetation, and human actions interacted to shape fire in the Earth system (Marlon et al., 2008; Molinari et al., 2018; Pechony & Shindell, 2010).”
Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system (2018, background): “Humans generally increase ignition frequency (Syphard et al 2009), reduce area burned (Andela et al 2017), extend the length of the fire season, and reduce fire size (Le Page et al2010).”
Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests (2020, background): “Although burned area is declining in grasslands and savannas, burned area is increasing in many tropical, temperate, and boreal forest ecosystems (36).”
Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world (2020, background): “3I), although human management of landscapes has led to wildfire suppression in some biomes (85).”
Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society (2020, background): “The studies come to a general consensus that in dryness-limited systems (e.g. forests), fire frequency and severity will increase, as has been documented globally over the last two decades (Andela et al 2017).”