We're building it up to burn it down: fire occurrence and fire-related climatic patterns in Brazilian biomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Terrestrial biomes in South America are likely to experience a persistent increase in environmental temperature, possibly combined with moisture reduction due to climate change. In addition, natural fire ignition sources, such as lightning, can become more frequent under climate change scenarios since favourable environmental conditions are likely to occur more often. In this sense, changes in the frequency and magnitude of natural fires can impose novel stressors on different ecosystems according to their adaptation to fires. By focusing on Brazilian biomes, we use an innovative combination of techniques to quantify fire persistence and occurrence patterns over time and evaluate climate risk by considering key fire-related climatic characteristics. Then, we tested four

SUBMITTER: Diele Viegas LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9615963 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature