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- Title
Fire activity as measured by burned area reveals weak effects of ENSO in China.
- Authors
Resco de Dios, Víctor; Yao, Yinan; Cunill Camprubí, Àngel; Boer, Matthias M.
- Abstract
A recent study, based on a comprehensive database of fire occurrences (Wildfire Atlas of China, WFAC)[1], concluded that the majority of fire activity in China is concentrated in its tropical and subtropical forests and significantly driven by ENSO. Ecoregion IDs from Dinerstein et al.[14]: 236, Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests; 256, Northern Indochina subtropical forests; 268, South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests; 642, Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests; 643 Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests. We observed that only 10% of the burned area in China occurred within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome of China (Fig.
- Subjects
FOREST fires; FIRE; FIRE management; TEMPERATE forests; EL Nino
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-32013-9