Anthropogenic fires in agro-pastoral ecotones are understudied. Using Ordos data (1987–2020) and machine learning, we identified fire drivers and patterns. Fires clustered in eastern populated areas, increased after 2000, and peaked recently, with April seasonality. Human-related ignitions dominated. Slope, humidity, and precipitation consistently drove burned area. Fires shifted to lower, drier, cooler conditions, suggesting possible advancing fire season and increasing human influence. Ecological restoration has been associated with increased fuel continuity, and the temporal coincidence suggests a potential restoration–fire paradox, although this hypothesis requires direct testing. Management should prioritize spring vigilance and fuel integration; better data on human behavior and fine fuels are needed for early warning.
Tropical wetlands have historically been resilient to fire, but ongoing climate and hydrological changes are undermining this stability. Here, we provide robust multi‐decadal evidence (1985–2024) of structural changes in the contemporary fire regime of the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, associated with hydrocli...
Lucas Barros-Rosa, P. Girard, Priscila Lemes de Azevedo Silva et al.· Global Change Biology· 0 citations
Wildfire regimes in Mediterranean hotspots like Portugal are driven by anthropogenic factors and fuel build-up, causing severe socio-economic impacts. This study hypothesizes: 1) that seasonally-disaggregated models outperform an overall annual model by revealing shifts between weather- and fuel-driven regimes; and 2)...
Vicente Paulo Santana, J. M. Gleriani, F. T. P. Torres et al.· Science of the Total Environ...· 0 citations
Aims: This study analyzed the spatiotemporal distribution, interannual variability, and recurrence of burned areas across land-use and land-cover (LULC) classes in the Brazilian Cerrado from 2019 to 2024. The main objective was to evaluate how fire regimes interact with natural and human-modified landscapes to support...
A. D. dos Santos, Carlos Fabrício Assunção da Silva, Fabrizia Gioppo Nunes et al.· Arabian Journal of Geoscienc...· 0 citations
Biomass burning (BB) contributes significantly to atmospheric pollution and ecological degradation, with growing concern over its potential intensification under accelerating climate change. However, its recent fine-scale spatiotemporal dynamics in China remain poorly understood, obscured by the intertwined impacts of...
Yi-Zhu Jiang, Xin-Feng Wang, Yu-Qiang Zhang et al.· Journal of Environmental Man...· 0 citations
Understanding wildfire dynamics and their climatic and topographic drivers is essential for effective fire management in Southeastern Europe. This study presents the first long-term assessment of wildfire trends across different land-cover types in Bulgaria, providing a methodological framework that is applicable acros...
Siberian wildfires, a major disturbance to ecosystems and carbon cycles, have intensified in recent decades, yet long‐term changes in fire seasonality remain unclear. Here, using a refined fire‐season framework, we identify a pronounced shift in fire season characteristics over eastern Siberia during 2002–2023, marked...
Ya-Wen Liu, Lian Xue, Xin Huang et al.· Geophysical Research Letters· 0 citations
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