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Weather Impacts on Fire Thresholds: A Recipe for Big Fire

2021 Research Brief

Description

In this important concept paper, Pausas and Keeley (2021) outline the mechanistic flow of complex drivers of wildfire for fire prone ecosystems. In brief, with ignitions, fuel continuity, and drought saturation points simultaneously lowered by the right weather, wildfire will be triggered.


Contact

Jon E. Keeley, jon_keeley@usgs.gov 

Marti Witter, marti_witter@nps.gov 

Liz van Mantgem, evanmantgem@usgs.gov

Additional Information

Pausas, J.G., and J.E. Keeley. 2021. Wildfires and global change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 9 pp.