Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest

A primary element of modern wildfire management is to aggressively suppress small fires before they become large, but benefits can be offset by the fact that these practices promote older forests that are more ‘flammable’. Here the authors show that this downside puts numerous human communities at e...

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Autores principales: Marc-André Parisien, Quinn E. Barber, Kelvin G. Hirsch, Christopher A. Stockdale, Sandy Erni, Xianli Wang, Dominique Arseneault, Sean A. Parks
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ce839b1b7a8e4527807aa4d52ac68baf2021-12-02T14:42:29ZFire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest10.1038/s41467-020-15961-y2041-1723https://doaj.org/article/ce839b1b7a8e4527807aa4d52ac68baf2020-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15961-yhttps://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723A primary element of modern wildfire management is to aggressively suppress small fires before they become large, but benefits can be offset by the fact that these practices promote older forests that are more ‘flammable’. Here the authors show that this downside puts numerous human communities at elevated risk of fires in boreal Canada.Marc-André ParisienQuinn E. BarberKelvin G. HirschChristopher A. StockdaleSandy ErniXianli WangDominique ArseneaultSean A. ParksNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
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Marc-André Parisien
Quinn E. Barber
Kelvin G. Hirsch
Christopher A. Stockdale
Sandy Erni
Xianli Wang
Dominique Arseneault
Sean A. Parks
Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest
description A primary element of modern wildfire management is to aggressively suppress small fires before they become large, but benefits can be offset by the fact that these practices promote older forests that are more ‘flammable’. Here the authors show that this downside puts numerous human communities at elevated risk of fires in boreal Canada.
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Sean A. Parks
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title Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest
title_short Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest
title_full Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest
title_fullStr Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest
title_full_unstemmed Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest
title_sort fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the canadian boreal forest
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