Climate Impacts on Fire Risk in Desert Shrublands: A Modeling Study

Fire is recognized to be an important disturbance in many ecosystems worldwide, although desert ecosystems are not generally thought of as being prone to fire, primarily because of the lack of a continuous fuel bed. However, the likelihood of catastrophic fires in some desert systems is increasing d...

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Main Authors: Kirk A. Moloney, Andres Fuentes-Ramirez, Claus Holzapfel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.601877/full