Short‐ and long‐term wildfire threat when adapting infrastructure for wildlife conservation in the boreal forest

• Published in: Ecological Applications
• Main Authors: Dawe, Denyse A., Parisien, Marc‐André, Boulanger, Yan, Boucher, Jonathan, Beauchemin, Alexandre, Arseneault, Dominique
• Other Authors: Hydro-Québec, Natural Resources Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: Canada; The Corridor; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.2606; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eap.2606; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/eap.2606; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eap.2606

Abstract Managers designing infrastructure in fire‐prone wildland areas require assessments of wildfire threat to quantify uncertainty due to future vegetation and climatic conditions. In this study, we combine wildfire simulation and forest landscape composition modeling to identify areas that woul...