Consideration of anthropogenic factors in boreal forest fire regime changes during rapid socio-economic development: case study of forestry districts with increasing burnt area in the Sakha Republic, Russia

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Kirillina, Kiunnei, Shvetsov, Evgeny G, Protopopova, Viktoriya V, Thiesmeyer, Lynn, Yan, Wanglin
• Other Authors: Keio University
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Kendall; Sakha; Sakha Republic; Yakutia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c6e; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c6e; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c6e/pdf

Abstract This paper presents an original approach to characterizing historical fire regimes for regions with limited fire data. Fire variables were derived from satellite datasets and regional fire occurrence statistics. They defined the integral elements of a fire regime such as historical trends,...