Global search for temporal shifts in fire activity
Potential human influence on southwest Russia and north Australia fire seasons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15545901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tianjia Liu (0000-0003-3129-0154, Planetary Science Institute, corresponding author), Loretta J Mickley (0000-0002-7859-3470, Harvard University), J L Mccarty (0000-0002-3333-3931, Miami University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 044023-044023 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/abe328 |
| OpenAlex | W3128706520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 53 |
Decadal trends in fire activity can reveal important human and climate-driven influences across a multitude of landscapes from croplands to savannas. We use 16 years of daily satellite observations from 2003 to 2018 to search globally for stationary temporal shifts in fire activity during the primary burning season. We focus on southwest Russia and north Australia as case study regions; both regions experienced nearly 40 d shifts over a 16 year period but in opposite directions. In southwest Russia, a major wheat-growing region, we trace the delay in post-harvest fires to several potential drivers: modernization in the agricultural system and recent droughts, followed by government restrictions on wheat exports. In north Australia, prescribed burns in the early dry season are a key practice in Aboriginal fire management of savannas, and the increasing trend of such fires has limited the size and extent of fast-spreading late dry season fires, thereby shifting overall fire activity earlier. In both regions, human action, through controlling fire ignition and extent, is an important driver of the temporal shifts in fire activity with climate as both a harbinger and an amplifier of human-induced changes
Climate change · Climatology · Ecosystem · Fire regime · Geography · Physical geography · Environmental Science · Fire effects on ecosystems · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research · Ecology · Geology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |