The hundreds of goats munching dead vegetation on a patch of roadside open space represent this Boulder County town's latest effort at staving off wildfires.
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42077194,42061134008,and 42377098);the Shanghai International Science and Technology Partnership Project(China)(No.21230780200);the Shanghai General Project(China)(No.23ZR1406100).
Wildfires burn approximately 3%-4% of the global land area annually,resulting in massive emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants.Over the past two decades,there has been a declining trend in both global burne...
provided by NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Ecosystem-based Forest Management(IRCPJ 550067–19,West Fraser Mills Ltd.,Mercer Peace River Pulp Ltd.,Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries,Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd.,Canadian Forest Products Ltd.,Tolko Industries Ltd.,and the Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta);provided financial support to R.Odell in the framework of Grants in Biodiversity program.
In an attempt to reconcile wood extraction and forest biodiversity in managed boreal forests,ecosystem-based forest management(EBM)has become the de facto management approach.Retention forestry represents one prominen...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program for Global Change and Adaptation(Grant No.2020YFA0608201)。
The recent increase of regional wildfire occurrences has been associated with climate change.In this study,we investigated the association between the February to March wildfire points and burned area in the southern ...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019YFA0606603 and 2019YFA0606601);supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42125105);supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42125101);supported by the Programme of Kezhen-Bingwei Excellent Young Scientists of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences(2022RC006);supported by SNF Ambizione(PZ00P3_193646);supported by the TED2021-132627B-I00 grant funded by the Spanish MCIN(AEI/10.13039/501100011033);the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR,the Fundación Ramón Areces project(CIVP20A6621);the Catalan government(SGR221-1333).
More intense fire weather due to climate change is implicated as a key driver of recent extreme wildfire events.As fuel stock,the role of vegetation and its phenology changes in wildfire dynamics,however is not fully ...
The funding of this research was provided by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology(FCT)in the framework of the House Refuge Project(PCIF/AGT/0109/2018).
Research on fires at the wildland-urban inter-face(WUI)has generated significant insights and advance-ments across various fields of study.Environmental,agri-culture,and social sciences have played prominent roles in ...
supported by the start-up fund provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China grant no.42071022(NSFC);the Southern University of Science and Technology(no.29/Y01296122).
While human activities,such as the burning of fossil fuels,are the primary contributors to the increase in atmospheric CO_(2) levels,large-scale wildfires can exacerbate this situation.In years with extensive and seve...
supported by the research project CGL2017-88200-R,titled"Functional Hydrological and Sediment Connectivity in Mediterranean Catchments:Global Change Scenarios–MEDhyCON_2,"funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science,Innovation,and Universities,the Spanish Agency of Research (AEI);the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF);funded by COST Action (grant no. CA18135),supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology),during a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) conducted by Jesús Rodrigo-Comino
Wildfires are complex natural phenomena that exert significant impacts on landscapes,societies,and economies.Understanding the concept of resilience is crucial in mitigating its possible negative impacts,as it involve...
jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42275038);China Meteorological Administration Climate Change Special Program (QBZ202306);Robin CLARK was funded by the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) China project under the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF)
Globally,2023 was the warmest observed year on record since at least 1850 and,according to proxy evidence,possibly of the past 100000 years.As in recent years,the record warmth has again been accompanied with yet more...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.92044302);the National Key Research and Development Program(Grant Nos.2020YFA0607801,2022YFE0106500);the National Key Scientific and Technological Infrastructure project“Earth System Numerical Simulation Facility”(EarthLab).
Due to the record-breaking wildfires that occurred in Canada in 2023,unprecedented quantities of air pollutants and greenhouse gases were released into the atmosphere.The wildfires had emitted more than 1.3 Pg CO_(2)a...