Fires on Ice: Emerging Permafrost Peatlands Fire Regimes in Russia’s Subarctic Taiga

• Published in: Land
• Main Authors: Vera Kuklina, Oleg Sizov, Elena Rasputina, Irina Bilichenko, Natalia Krasnoshtanova, Viktor Bogdanov, Andrey N. Petrov
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: smoldering fires; zombie fires; boreal forest; permafrost; Evenki; subarctic; Arctic; Khanda; Ice; Subarctic; taiga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030322

Wildfires in permafrost areas, including smoldering fires (e.g., “zombie fires”), have increasingly become a concern in the Arctic and subarctic. Their detection is difficult and requires ground truthing. Local and Indigenous knowledge are becoming useful sources of information that could guide futu...