How climate variations influence fires
An international study involving CNR's Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources shows how climate change influences fires and the extent of burned areas, determining the quantity of dry biomass accessible for burning during a fire. The study is the result of twenty years of data collection and was published in the Earth's Future journal: it will allow the development of more effective strategies to prevent and manage fires. The study clearly demonstrates the direct dependence of the burned area on climatic conditions and how climate variations influence ecosystem dynamics, and determining the extent of fires. Other factors can also influence certain areas, such as the type and distribution of vegetation, the ability to identify the outbreaks of fire early and the rapidity of control interventions. The study is the result of an international collaboration involving, in addition to CNR-IGG, numerous institutions including the University of Murcia in Spain, the University of California, the University of Montpellier in France, the Universidad Austral de Chile, and the New South Wales Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre (BNHRC) in Australia.
Bibliographic reference
Andrina Gincheva, Juli G. Pausas, Miguel Ángel Torres‐Vázquez, Joaquín Bedia, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, John T. Abatzoglou, Josep A. Sánchez‐Espigares, Emilio Chuvieco, Sonia Jerez, Antonello Provenzale, Ricardo M. Trigo, and Marco Turco. The Interannual Variability of Global Burned Area Is Mostly Explained Climatic Drivers. Earth's Future, 12, e2023EF004334, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF004334.
For information: Antonello Provenzale, CNR-IGG (antonello.provenzale@cnr.it).
