Wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2016
Northern Eurasia is currently highly sensitive to climate change. Fires in this region can have significant impacts on regional air quality, radiative forcing and black carbon deposition in the Arctic which can accelerate ice melting. Using a MODIS-derived burned area dataset, we report that the tot...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:95babaf8f38841d69fe9049356bcaff5 2023-05-15T15:05:29+02:00 Wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2016 W. M. Hao M. C. Reeves L. S. Baggett Y. Balkanski P. Ciais B. L. Nordgren A. Petkov R. E. Corley F. Mouillot S. P. Urbanski C. Yue 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2559-2021 https://doaj.org/article/95babaf8f38841d69fe9049356bcaff5 EN eng Copernicus Publications https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/18/2559/2021/bg-18-2559-2021.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1726-4170 https://doaj.org/toc/1726-4189 doi:10.5194/bg-18-2559-2021 1726-4170 1726-4189 https://doaj.org/article/95babaf8f38841d69fe9049356bcaff5 Biogeosciences, Vol 18, Pp 2559-2572 (2021) Ecology QH540-549.5 Life QH501-531 Geology QE1-996.5 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2559-2021 2022-12-31T12:31:43Z Northern Eurasia is currently highly sensitive to climate change. Fires in this region can have significant impacts on regional air quality, radiative forcing and black carbon deposition in the Arctic which can accelerate ice melting. Using a MODIS-derived burned area dataset, we report that the total annual area burned in this region declined by 53 % during the 15-year period from 2002 to 2016. Grassland fires dominated this trend, accounting for 93 % of the decline in the total area burned. Grassland fires in Kazakhstan contributed 47 % of the total area burned and 84 % of the decline. A wetter climate and increased grazing are the principle driving forces for the decline. Our findings (1) highlight the importance of the complex interactions of climate–vegetation–land use in affecting fire activity and (2) reveal how the resulting impacts on fire activity in a relatively small region such as Kazakhstan can dominate the trends in burned areas across a much larger landscape of northern Eurasia. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic black carbon Climate change Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Biogeosciences 18 8 2559 2572 |
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Northern Eurasia is currently highly sensitive to climate change. Fires in this region can have significant impacts on regional air quality, radiative forcing and black carbon deposition in the Arctic which can accelerate ice melting. Using a MODIS-derived burned area dataset, we report that the total annual area burned in this region declined by 53 % during the 15-year period from 2002 to 2016. Grassland fires dominated this trend, accounting for 93 % of the decline in the total area burned. Grassland fires in Kazakhstan contributed 47 % of the total area burned and 84 % of the decline. A wetter climate and increased grazing are the principle driving forces for the decline. Our findings (1) highlight the importance of the complex interactions of climate–vegetation–land use in affecting fire activity and (2) reveal how the resulting impacts on fire activity in a relatively small region such as Kazakhstan can dominate the trends in burned areas across a much larger landscape of northern Eurasia. |
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W. M. Hao M. C. Reeves L. S. Baggett Y. Balkanski P. Ciais B. L. Nordgren A. Petkov R. E. Corley F. Mouillot S. P. Urbanski C. Yue |
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W. M. Hao M. C. Reeves L. S. Baggett Y. Balkanski P. Ciais B. L. Nordgren A. Petkov R. E. Corley F. Mouillot S. P. Urbanski C. Yue |
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Wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2016 |
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Wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2016 |
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Wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2016 |
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Wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2016 |
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Wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2016 |
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wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern eurasia from 2002 to 2016 |
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