Recent changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region—Spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska

TLDR: Recently, Kasischke et al. as mentioned in this paper studied changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region (NABR) and found that the proportion of total burned area from human-ignited fires decreased over this same time period.

Abstract: of more large fire events (>1,000 km 2 ). The proportion of total burned area from human-ignited fires decreased over this same time period, while the proportion of burning during the early and late- growing-seasons increased. Trends in increased burned area were consistent across the NABR ecozones, though the western ecozones experienced greater increases in larger fire years compared to the eastern ecozones. Seasonal patterns of burning differed among ecozones. Along with the climate warming, changes in the fire regime characteristics may be an important driver of future ecosystem processes in the NABR. Citation: Kasischke, E. S., and M. R. Turetsky (2006), Recent changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region—Spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L09703, doi:10.1029/ 2006GL025677.