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A thirty year, fine-scale, characterization of area burned in Canadian forests shows evidence of regionally increasing trends in the last decade

Fire as a dominant disturbance has profound implications on the terrestrial carbon cycle. We present the first ever multi-decadal, spatially-explicit, 30 meter assessment of fire regimes across the forested ecoregions of Canada at an annual time-step. From 1985 to 2015, 51 Mha burned, impacting over...

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Autores principales: Coops, Nicholas C., Hermosilla, Txomin, Wulder, Michael A., White, Joanne C., Bolton, Douglas K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29787562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197218