Lightning as a major driver of recent large fire years in North American boreal forests

Changes in climate and fire regimes are transforming the boreal forest, the world’s largest biome. Boreal North America recently experienced two years with large burned area: 2014 in the Northwest Territories and 2015 in Alaska. Here we use climate, lightning, fire and vegetation data sets to assess...

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Published in:	Nature climate change Vol. 7; no. 7; pp. 529 - 534
Main Authors:	Veraverbeke, Sander, Rogers, Brendan M., Goulden, Mike L., Jandt, Randi R., Miller, Charles E., Wiggins, Elizabeth B., Randerson, James T.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.07.2017 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	704/158/2454 704/158/2465 Annual variations Area Boreal ecosystems Boreal forests Burning Carbon Climate Climate Change Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts Combustion Dynamics Environment Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice Fires Forests Ignition Interannual variability Lightning Precipitation Temperature effects Treeline Vegetation North America
ISSN:	1758-678X, 1758-6798
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