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The response of wildfire regimes to Last Glacial Maximum carbon dioxide and climate
Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, Imperial
College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2BW, UK
Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet, Department of Life
Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road,
Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
Iain Colin Prentice
Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, Imperial
College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2BW, UK
Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet, Department of Life
Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road,
Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
Sandy P. Harrison
Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, Imperial
College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2BW, UK
Geography & Environmental Science, University of Reading,
Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AH, UK
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We quantify the impact of CO2 and climate on global patterns of burnt area, fire size, and intensity under Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) conditions using three climate scenarios. Climate change alone did not produce the observed LGM reduction in burnt area, but low CO2 did through reducing vegetation productivity. Fire intensity was sensitive to CO2 but strongly affected by changes in atmospheric dryness. Low CO2 caused smaller fires; climate had the opposite effect except in the driest scenario.
We quantify the impact of CO2 and climate on global patterns of burnt area, fire size, and...
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