Wildfire plays an important role in ecosystems
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The gap
Wildfire plays an important role in ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, but past relationships among fire, climate, and human actions remain unclear.
Evidence profile
Stated in the abstract section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2015 and 2021, spanning 4 journals. Those papers have been cited 119 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps
- Fire history in southern Patagonia: human and climate influences on fire activity in <i>Nothofagus pumilio</i> forests (2017) · Ecosphere · cited 41× · doi
Due to the scarcity of documentary fire records and the lack of tree‐ring fire histories, little is known about how wildfire activity responds to shifts in the westerly circulation pattern and associated climatic variability in the Andean region south of ~44° S.
generalstated in abstractevidence 5/5Keywords: fire scarcity documentary records lack tree ring histories little known wildfire activity responds shifts westerly - A Regional Perspective on Holocene Fire–Climate–Human Interactions in the Pacific Northwest of North America (2015) · Annals of the Association of American Geographers · cited 59× · doi
Wildfire plays an important role in ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, but past relationships among fire, climate, and human actions remain unclear.
generalstated in abstractevidence 4/5Keywords: wildfire plays important role ecosystems pacific northwest past relationships among fire climate human actions remain - Fire frequency during the Holocene in central Latvia, northeastern Europe (2021) · Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Geology · cited 4× · doi
Even though natural and anthropogenic fires have shaped forest composition and landscape characteristics since the last glacial retreat from northeastern Europe, fire frequency is an understudied topic.
generalstated in abstractevidence 4/5Keywords: even though natural anthropogenic fires shaped forest composition landscape characteristics last glacial retreat northeastern europe - Responses of dead forest fuel moisture to climate change (2016) · Ecohydrology · cited 15× · doi
Predicting future wildfire trends and controlled burned conditions is essential to effective natural resource management, but the associated effects of forest fuel moisture remain uncertain.
generalstated in abstractevidence 4/5Keywords: predicting future wildfire trends controlled burned conditions essential effective natural resource management associated effects forest
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