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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2559-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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22 Apr 2021
Research article |
| 22 Apr 2021
| 22 Apr 2021
Wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2016
Wei Min Hao
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory, 5775 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808, USA
Matthew C. Reeves
United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 800 East Beckwith, Missoula, MT 59801, USA
L. Scott Baggett
United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 240 West Prospect, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
Yves Balkanski
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE–CEA–CNRS–UVSQ, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE–CEA–CNRS–UVSQ, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
Bryce L. Nordgren
United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory, 5775 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808, USA
Alexander Petkov
United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory, 5775 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808, USA
Rachel E. Corley
United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory, 5775 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808, USA
Florent Mouillot
UMR CEFE 5175, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, 34293 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
Shawn P. Urbanski
United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory, 5775 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808, USA
Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P.R. China
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12 citations as recorded by crossref.
- Changes in grazing patterns explain post-Soviet fire trends on the Eurasian steppe better than climate B. Hankerson et al.
- Post‐Sovietfire and grazing regimes govern the abundance of a key ecosystem engineer on the Eurasian steppe, the yellow ground squirrelSpermophilus fulvus A. Koshkina et al.
- Wildfire risk assessment and hotspot analysis in an African savanna ecosystem: the Eastern Okavango Panhandle, Botswana P. Mashaire et al.
- Spatiotemporal variation characteristics of global fires and their emissions H. Fan et al.
- Satellite Observational Evidence of Contrasting Changes in Northern Eurasian Wildfires from 2003 to 2020 J. Tian et al.
- Characterization of global fire activity and its spatiotemporal patterns for different land cover types from 2001 to 2020 X. Yang et al.
- Protected areas influence fire regimes globally A. Cardil et al.
- Analysis of Trends in the FireCCI Global Long Term Burned Area Product (1982–2018) G. Otón et al.
- Forests burnability in Siberian subregion and post-fire effects according to modern and retrospective satellite surveys A. Malkanova et al.
- Assessment of satellite orbit-drift artifacts in the long-term AVHRR FireCCILT11 global burned area data set L. Giglio & D. Roy
- Collapse and recovery of livestock systems shape fire regimes on the Eurasian steppe: a review of ecosystem and biodiversity implications J. Kamp et al.
- Vegetation greening and driving factors in the Eurasian drylands under sustained drought conditions over recent two decades J. Liu et al.
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Short summary
We examined the trends in the spatial and temporal distribution of the area burned in northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2016. The annual area burned in this region declined by 53 % during the 15-year period under analysis. Grassland fires in Kazakhstan dominated the fire activity, comprising 47 % of the area burned but accounting for 84 % of the decline. A wetter climate and the increase in grazing livestock in Kazakhstan are the major factors contributing to the decline in the area burned.
We examined the trends in the spatial and temporal distribution of the area burned in northern...
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